Poems
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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’ -
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 -
The stars
By Melanie MununggurrAppeared out of nowhere
They came from every direction
Erupted through surfaces
And dove from blackened skies -
Lost in Translation
By Teela ReidI’m bewildered by you
You’re bewildered by me
The difference is
not the colour we see. -
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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 -
New Hope's Black Pit
By Bob BrownThree years ago
the delightful
Darling Downs
village of Acland -
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 -
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. -
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 -
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Pale Blue
By Mark MordueI’m in a pale blue mood
in Leichhardt, in Summer Hills,
a storybook explorer
afternoon sun in my face -
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 -
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ਖੁਸ਼ ਦਿਲ (kush dil / happy heart)
By Sukhjit Kaur KhalsaI arrive at JFK
after twenty-nine
endlessly elongated
uneventful -
When a poet dies
By Juan Garrido-SalgadoTime ceases to be memory.
Motionless words remain there
Diluted pages of the inspiration that one day was.
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Việt Nam Postcards
By Jake DennisHo Hoàn Kiém, Hà Nội
The Lake of the Returned Sword
Polished smiles—embalmed
