Marlene

Marlene

nearness

by L.E. WARD a lamp lights                       the back of my eyes metal heats in my skin         veinspinned                          to the table I wake upon your shoulder bladeyour breath               within…

Two Brothers

by MIKE GREENACRE Two brothers, Charles and Andrew caught in time’s hands lifting them out of Depression years and watching them as children playing marbles down the road on the footpath and in the drains on either side of High…

Mitch Brown

Mitch Browne is a poet and bricklayer from the Blue Mountains. His work has been published in ZineWest, Quadrant, Grieve, JAMA, medmic, OfTheBook, The Sydney Morning Herald, and elsewhere. He won the ZineWest Best Poem award in 2023, and again…

Aurora’s Boring Content

by ALFREED FANDANGLE Awe stars’ verses, bored as Aurora gathering rainbows at the dawn of local time. Unsavable daylight can’t power you through the night. Like some kind of magic wand in valley, no secret Malley bull is really fowl.…