December 2022
Selectors: Coral Carter, Rose van Son, Barry Sanbrook and Gary De Piazzi
Contributors:
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old pond
rising through cloud
a lotus
sepia the life you leave me
Gavin Austin
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lake, I must ask why
you must reflect both me and
this empty bottle
Robert Beveridge
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my mind
in his—
ghostwriter
a crumb creeps
across the bricks
sugar ant
Alanna C. Burke
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mom’s anniversary—
backyard mango tree
blossoms
day after granny’s funeral
someone removes
the empty mailbox
Ram Chandram
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summer long gone
my pocket still heavy
with sand
old photograph
my memory of you
just as blurred
paper kite
in a single brush stroke
i draw the sky
flowing river
if only tomorrow
were as clear
Alvin B Cruz
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weathered hands—
he cradles the lamb
to his chest
scooping chestnuts
into an open bag—
mother and daughter
Anne Curran
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on her bed end
fishnet stockings
catch me
morning mirror
remembering
every wrinkle
empty bottles
roll on the floor
too drunk to stand
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
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her poem
we pause
to fold laundry
David Kāwika Eyre
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opus
blue jays and meadowlarks
taking turns
Bill Fay
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granite headstone
the moss-filled etchings
of forgotten years
Mike Gallagher
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I wear his shirt
stroke the softness
in him
Candy Gordon
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wind in bamboo
the lisp of a flute
almost heard
Hazel Hall
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smoothly
across the water—
the plastic duck
smoke-haze
the car coughs
autumn morning
pouring tea-leaves
into a puddle
Matt Hetherington
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wildflower season
the rest area blossoms
with plastic bags
brothel tour
the madam asks
for my hairdressers’ number
Louise Hopewell
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peeling paint
looking out the window
for dad
Marilyn Humbert
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Carnaby’s
struggle to survive
My pantry is full
Pantha Jaskiewicz
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napping cat
this desire to rest
all my worries
Samo Kreutz
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weathered book
opening a door
to the past
Chris Langer
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fading light—
the grey ghost
of a heron
John Low
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ebb tide …
the waves’ scrawl
on moonlit sand
Jo McInerney
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beach day …
the hint of scrotum dangling
from high shorts
Rob McKinnon
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sumi e
all my blossoms
in a stroke
Subir Ningthouja
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waiting
at the doctor
no new posters
Julian O’Dea
Back to Top
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composing haiku
in the park—
the laughter of kookaburras
noon—
paperbarks shed
their shadows
Jaya Penelope
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nursing home –
on new year’s eve
fireworks on tv
christmas eve –
a busker’s donation box
full of snowflakes
Milan Rajkumar
Imphal, India
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Aussie sun
the garden gnome’s
fading complexion
council clean up
kerbside junk
ebbs and flows
jewellery box
the links
in my life
Carol Reynolds
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the curve
of the fruit picker’s back
box of green plums
Cynthia Rowe
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years later…
she starts reading
to her mother
Srini S
Rishi Valley, India
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drought bride
champagne
no water
cracked earth
a dollar coin
lost
Barry Sanbrook
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traffic jam
my eyes follow
hurrying clouds
Manoj Sharma
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rolling thunder
a flash of brumby
through the trees
Happy Hour … friends become friendlier
Tom Staudt
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glass puddle
the last journey
of this feather
receding tide
the sea takes back
bits of itself
Debbie Strange
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found in an old journal
an English garden’s
perfume
Rose van Son
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fleeting years
my son begins to share
slippers with me
Chen Xiaoou
Kunming, China
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