December 2024
Selectors: Coral Carter, Rose van Son, Barry Sanbrook, Gary De Piazzi
Contributors
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which of us
will fall first
last quarter moon
benediction
the cat rubs her whiskers
on my foot brace
Alanna C. Burke
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recreation
our hotel room
above the disco
Pitt Büerken
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summer heat
beyond the fan’s reach
beads of sweat
pine forest
the long ridge
an open zip
Rohan Buettel
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the red, yellow, orange
of autumn leaves—
slow dance
Anne Curran
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foreign country—
dogs bark a language
I understand
harbourside—
sea of heads
bob
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
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tyre tread patterns
against the grain
of dugite skin
Kathleen Dzubiel
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cumulus clouds
wearing pyjamas
all day long
Fiona H Evans
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flyover
a rainbow vanishes
into eight lanes of traffic
Louise Hopewell
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grand view
instead I watch an ant
climb a blade of grass
Pat Johnson
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monsoon evening
the splash
of a speeding sedan
suburban train
we sway
with the start
Govind Joshi
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hung out to dry –
the glazed wings
of a cormorant
John Low
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war memorial
Silver Princess
weeping
haze on the hills
smoking zone
Mardi May
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long load
a forest lying
flat-packed
bubble and squeak
strands of seaweed
between my toes
Jo McInerney
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sprouting
from a sunken grave
kangaroo grass
Leanne Mumford
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retirement
letting the younger horses
find their way to water
M. R. Pelletier
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memorial flame
children need more years
to remember
skyline
a ragged edge
of highrise
Barry Sanbrook
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street cricket
two matches share
a fielder
Srini
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curving
to meet itself
a heron’s observation
Joshua St. Claire
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insect hotel
the woodpecker drills
a new window
Debbie Strange
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birthday balloons
dangle from the mailbox …
two more pounds to lose
raucous cicadas
he follows the clique
off the school bus
Elaine Wilburt
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