Poems
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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. -
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 -
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 -
ਖੁਸ਼ ਦਿਲ (kush dil / happy heart)
By Sukhjit Kaur KhalsaI arrive at JFK
after twenty-nine
endlessly elongated
uneventful -
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New Hope's Black Pit
By Bob BrownThree years ago
the delightful
Darling Downs
village of Acland -
Pale Blue
By Mark MordueI’m in a pale blue mood
in Leichhardt, in Summer Hills,
a storybook explorer
afternoon sun in my face -
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 -
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 -
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 -
pinged hammy
By Harry Reidafter Ted Berrigan
Now that the Earth is changing I reckon it’s
time to hang the boots up -
Screen Memory
By Anwen CrawfordCathy Moriarty,
18 playing 15
in Scorsese’s Raging Bull –
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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 -
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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ኪዳን / Covenant
By Yirga Gelaw Woldeyesያኔ በልጅነት ከማሳው ወሰድኸኝ፣
አፈሩን ጨብጠህ እስኪ አሽትተው አልኸኝ።
የድንጋዮቹ ስም የምንጮቹ ታሪክ፣
የአዝርዕቶቹ አይነት የአበባወቹ መልክ፣