June 2023
Selectors: Coral Carter, Rose van Son, Barry Sanbrook and Gary De Piazzi
Contributors:
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wave swash
all the crab holes
popping
Lynette Arden
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alone
in a crowd
one red gumleaf
Gavin Austin
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teenage laundry
with paper hanky
early snow
morning kick-starts
neighbour and motorbike
coughing
Ingrid Baluchi
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eggshells —
the craggy edges
of separation
Mona Lisa —
the smiles we share
across the gallery
Mona Bedi
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rock pool
crab scutters inside
a plastic bottle
chopping board
the warm fragrance of
huon pine
Sabrina Blom
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just me
and the ceiling spider
summer nap
they said
it wouldn’t last
and the dish ran away with the spoon
ant highway
the lane to our house
worn deeper
Alanna C. Burke
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June rain
in the downpipe
honkey-tonk
four boats on a truck sail the Nullarbor
Coral Carter
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morning visitors—
today’s gossip is
all laughter
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
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house for sale
grandma’s roses
in bloom
fall in love
the way they open
cherry blossoms
Małgorzata Formanowska
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coronation day
too much whipped cream
on my pavlova
husband’s DNA test
I always suspected
he was part Neanderthal
Louise Hopewell
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carving on capital
the mason’s
old hands
Govind Joshi
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raking the garden …
a wheelbarrow filled with
the boy’s shouts
Samo Kreutz
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derelict church—
its congregation
of sparrows
John Low
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my sister has
low sodium levels
swallows her tears
Mardi May
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Mother’s memorial
wading the warm sea
to be with her again
Ron C. Moss
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open train doors—
a whipbird’s call
before they close
Leanne Mumford
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Waiting room—
an hour’s
slow turning
M. R. Pelletier
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frosty morning
in her hand, a bridle
and a carrot
Gregory Piko
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regrowth
each tree a replica
of the past
three cranes
above the city
another boom
Barry Sanbrook
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the classic hum
of Saturday afternoon
all the lawnmowers …
Tom Staudt
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muggy day
one cloud stalled
between oaks
polar fleece
I upload my breath
to the cloud
Debbie Strange
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balcony garden —
my sister shares with me
first tomato
Steliana Cristina Voicu
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