Poems
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The stars
By Melanie MununggurrAppeared out of nowhere
They came from every direction
Erupted through surfaces
And dove from blackened skies -
HHH/KKK
By Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena MossFor Fiona Foley
‘The power to define the other seals one’s definition of oneself – who, then, in such a fearful mathematic is trapped?’
~ James Baldwin -
pinged hammy
By Harry Reidafter Ted Berrigan
Now that the Earth is changing I reckon it’s
time to hang the boots up -
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Together We Can Walk That Mile
By Sean Choolburrablack man white world
black girl makes a stand
unpaid bills leads
to black out leaves -
Sea Grape (A Decaying-Flourishing Sestina)
By Stuart BarnesWith a nod to Lawrence Schimel
An expanse of green———
green hands, green being -
my most-watched YouTube searches of the year (so far)
By Andrew SutherlandAnetra dives over Marcia Marcia Marcia
the here and now is a bendback-house
queering the queue repeat now jump!!
Jimin ‘Set Me Free pt2’ -
The time traveler’s memoir
By Chris TseI remember the moment we learned
how to rewrite our potential—the sky opened up
like time-lapse flowers blooming
in a desaturated landscape—entire timelines -
Sun Is Cat Poetry
By Shastra DeoAt the middle point of the last days of autumn my cat
texts me poetry. Saw a bird… effervescent. Sunset
today is rich as Valencia orange cake topped with
blueberry compote. I dreamed I was trotting through -
Mangrove Girls
By Lulu HoudiniPotato scallops from the takeaway that always smells like a camel station
but that my sisters and I can't get enough of.
Pimples show up on our faces because of it.
Tell Mum there was a price increase and that's what happened to the change. -
COMPROMISING THE AMBIANCE
By David QuirkWhat happened was
I noticed my heart was beating.
Not that it ever stopped, but
you understand. -
Hi Mum, It's Me
By Jennifer Wong'In 2022, Australians are believed to have lost over $7 million through the now-notorious ‘Hi Mum’ text scam, which dupes victims into sending money to cybercriminals posing as their children.' (SBS News)
“Hi Mum, it’s me,
Your child -
Altermath
By Andy Jacksonfor the 60 people who suicide in Australia each week, 45 of whom are men*.
the rope ought to have frayed and unspun into a cloud of seed-threads
the branch, been split by sudden, grievous lightning -
Lost in Translation
By Teela ReidI’m bewildered by you
You’re bewildered by me
The difference is
not the colour we see. -
New Hope's Black Pit
By Bob BrownThree years ago
the delightful
Darling Downs
village of Acland -
THE EPIC HIGHS AND LOWS OF HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
By Rebecca Shaw, Freya Daly SadgroveO Riverdale
O Riverdale, American supernatural horror crime drama television series based
on the characters of Archie Comics
O Riverdale streaming on Netflix -
A Day at the Beach
By Karen WyldThey rowed from the north. Little way, not far now.
Along routes passed down from ancestral wayfinders.
In search of sea cucumbers, and trade. Perhaps love.
Yellow dogs yapping from shore and boat: we remember you. -
ਖੁਸ਼ ਦਿਲ (kush dil / happy heart)
By Sukhjit Kaur KhalsaI arrive at JFK
after twenty-nine
endlessly elongated
uneventful
