September 2025
Selectors: Coral Carter, Rose van Son, Barry Sanbrook, Gary De Piazzi
Contributors:
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stopping for gas
in the middle of nowhere
cricket song
rain again …
church bells echo
after the funeral
Rowan Beckett Minor
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lost devotions …
tumbling down the escarpment
rosary beads
wind gust—
boarding the train
school kids
Gwen Bitti
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migrating birds
no passport needed
nothing to declare
Pitt Büerken
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immigrant barber
an Australian flag
tacked to the wall
Rohan Buettel
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seven songs
from a wooden flute
night wind
still lost
I check the map
for his plot
Alanna C. Burke
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wind in the rafters
chattering thru the night
brushtail possums
golden wattles—
a flourish
of lorikeets
fisherman
slump back to shore—
a gannet spears the sea
Lysa Collins
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a rainbow kite
flies higher than the rest—
summer winds
summer roadtrip—
my first pair of sunnies
a sparkling blue
Anne Curran
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14 days inside—
the walls
are stone
night sky—
searching
for fireflies
full moon—
the sundial
is amiss
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
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dementia—
the drains clogged
with leaves
truancy—
crusted with mud
my son’s soles
Goran Gatalica
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swimming hole
an old gum leans
into sunset
Louise Hopewell
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mother figure
the sister
who didn’t marry
Govind Joshi
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her hair
in my face …
wild wind
sweet orange
unfolding
the futon
quiet tears …
the folded note
between us
Thomas Landgraf
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her birthday
warm mugs
in our hands
Michael Leach
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frog call …
I forget
who I am
sunblaze trees
surface of the pond
sunblaze trees
Earl Livings
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old graveyard –
filtered sunlight dapples
our conversation
John Low
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the silence of the stream
in summer
Mardi May
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burning sky …
his eighty-year-old nightmare
of the bomb
Rob McKinnon
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flooded streets
everything that burrows
flees
M. R. Pelletier
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six string guitar
stairway to heaven
life drawing
her body
smudges my fingers
Barry Sanbrook
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first date
a spring gust unravels
my hair
Manoj Sharma
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food bank
the chipmunk’s cheeks
half-full
ice needles
our shoreline pinned
to the lake
Debbie Strange
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cruising the estuary
each channel marker
a cormorant
Helen Taylor
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warm autumn day …
I take the long path
home
first kiss …
forgetting
about the rain
Steliana Cristina Voicu
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she prefers wearing black
… until he dies
Tony Steven Williams
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