Poems
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Lost in Translation
By Teela ReidI’m bewildered by you
You’re bewildered by me
The difference is
not the colour we see. -
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. -
so too the sunrise
By Jazz Moneyso too the sunrise
with clarity and promise
of who you will rise to be
so too the breaking night -
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’ -
Screen Memory
By Anwen CrawfordCathy Moriarty,
18 playing 15
in Scorsese’s Raging Bull –
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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 -
Etched in My Mind
By Charmaine Papertalk GreenI am still thinking about you mother
Slapping me awake 40 years on
New space time moving thataway -
Beltane Morning Burning
By Tara Moss, Berndt SellheimPut it down to a May squall.
The new air of new life, what is earned with years
of winter. These days
you place your faith in acts -
ਖੁਸ਼ ਦਿਲ (kush dil / happy heart)
By Sukhjit Kaur KhalsaI arrive at JFK
after twenty-nine
endlessly elongated
uneventful -
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 -
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ኪዳን / Covenant
By Yirga Gelaw Woldeyesያኔ በልጅነት ከማሳው ወሰድኸኝ፣
አፈሩን ጨብጠህ እስኪ አሽትተው አልኸኝ።
የድንጋዮቹ ስም የምንጮቹ ታሪክ፣
የአዝርዕቶቹ አይነት የአበባወቹ መልክ፣ -
pinged hammy
By Harry Reidafter Ted Berrigan
Now that the Earth is changing I reckon it’s
time to hang the boots up -
Việt Nam Postcards
By Jake DennisHo Hoàn Kiém, Hà Nội
The Lake of the Returned Sword
Polished smiles—embalmed -
Clean Break
By Julian MatthewsI miss your low drone,
your no-nonsense, business-like growl
Ready to pounce on quarry under the couch
or stick your slanted mouth in to seize -
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 -
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 -
The World is Your Pants
By Marieke Hardy, Emilie Zoey BakerTo anyone who ever said children should be seen and not heard,
I want to tell them about the kid I saw at the Natural History Museum
who ran up to a meteorite, hugged it and yelled, “I LOVE YOU, OUTER SPACE!”
That boy tore a moment in the silence to remind -
Pale Blue
By Mark MordueI’m in a pale blue mood
in Leichhardt, in Summer Hills,
a storybook explorer
afternoon sun in my face
