by FREDERICK HAYES We paddled diffidentlyAlong with the othersAlways awkwardlyEmbarrassed by ourLack of coordinationMindful of the milesAnd the bruised fingersCompeting with achingMuscles for our attentionWhilst pristine MainePaced along beside usQuietly observing ourUneven progress downThe water’s pathwayUntil the stream widenedAnd the…
Touring Victoria a tanka string see trees embroidered with flowers and fruits under clouds, scattered like designer cushions … nature’s outdoor room glancing through a chance hole in a fence I’m like a spy rewarded with secrets … the vast…
I never saw you whole just what was left of your home a giant turtle shell your Mission erased by beach-side fire I’m sorry I met only your bones Old Mapoon, Queensland
by YVETTE STUBBS 1. She lives on a tropical island Feels vagaries of watery surrounds Ferries dictate her freedom She drowns when controlled. 2. Sandy night walking Paddling in froth and bubbles Splash cold water Flicking the anxt away Into…
by MARK MILLER 1. This morning the mistcomes apart before me,like fabric, like ashes ––revealing at low tidesea-wrack and bottle-caps,necklaces of purple sea-grapes,bluebottles and ribboned weed,and like part of an oldbicycle tyre twisteda bludgeoned eel,its hooked mouthhauled into a snarl…
by HELEN McDONALD A response to Aboriginal artist Sonia Kurarra’s painting ‘Martuwarra’after being invited to camp on Bunuba country by the traditional owners My surface eyes skim acrossthe forever Fitzroy river.An outsider, heavy-treadingon this land,I watch from the bank –see skipping,…
by JEANNIE HAUGHTON Night walk to the cloisters, constellations of dark women, hips swaying to the rhythm of carry bags the evening meal or tomorrow’s lunch no car boots filled with a week’s supplies no click and collect around here…
Tony Steven Williams is a Canberra poet and short-fiction author who writes across a broad range of genre and format. In all his work, the environment and the human condition are important to him. Tony has two poetry collections (Ginninderra…
Wanda Amos lives in Old Bar, NSW. She has been published in several online blogs, forums and journals. Now retired, she enjoys travel, beach and bush walking, photography and haiku writing. Her Websites: wandas wandarings on Facebook and wandas_wandarings on…
Samantha Sirimanne Hyde was born in Sri Lanka and now lives in Australia. She holds a M.A. in Creative Writing, co-authored a selection of poetry, published a collection of short fiction and recently a novel, “The Lyrebird’s Cry.” Her Japanese…
