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Water on Rock, Wind in Trees - by Pete Hay
The old earth frets, I thought,/
it will be another earth within the moment./
This small voice of water/
is the earth’s pure sound …
Voyager I - by Sarah Day
The digits on the NASA site/
flash by too quickly/
for the eye to read. Voyager I/
is speeding away from home …
Thirty Pieces - by A Frances Johnson
You hang, peerless, around the edges /
of friendship. Want more than to swing /
in a biblical sunset, play villain in a /
cloud-hammered story with ‘good cop’ /
twisting your head into the back of a car …
Maria-Mercè in the Palm Grove - by Eileen Chong
I am dreaming: we are in the palm grove. /
It is night—the stars are present in the cloudless sky. /
I am free from pain. We walk in the garden, /
past the tiled fountain with its trickled song …
gadhalumarra - by Yaaran Ellis
ngurambangdhi /
bunying dharrawaluny /
bunying dhuruwirra /
guraymarrabinya …
Pink Sun - by Toby Fitch
… at peak hour / pink sun / black sky / you can return now / for eternity / ’cause you’ve stood up with the Hellsong / hung loose and come out the other / sideline without a hose / to fan the arson online …
Beach Front - by Ellen van Neerven
I have written a manifesto /
already. It did not include your singing /
when you know I’m listening. You tell me to buy /
better sunglasses …
Walking a Forest Trail One Summer Afternoon - by Judith Beveridge
Shadows spill towards the creek; rotting leaves smell of peat /
and leached tannins. In the trees magpies chortle, /
then lightly run a line of choriambs across their vocal chords, /
preparations choristers might make, bubbling up sounds /
before an evening of carolling …
Sunlight / Dear Mum - by Graham Akhurst
… At midday the sun was high and bright in the clear blue sky. You took off your slippers, socks, and beanie, and walked your frail body – with the hospital gown hanging loosely over you and the wheels of your drip machine rattling – onto the lawn …
Hippophobia - by Chloe Wilson
This poem was runner-up in the 2018 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize.
Someone’s taint or blot. That’s/
how I shouldered my way/
into this world. Neither of us/
forgot it …
Tend - by Jo Langdon
I could some days mistake for a flower/
the perineum—by letter & sound—it’s true:/
like some variant nasturtium/
of jaunty colour atop salad leaves & dressed/
in bright oil …
Distorted Depiction - by Cassandra Atherton
Picasso says love is dangerous, like a house that’s falling down/
You trace the heart shape around my hairline, fingers coming to/
rest under my pointed chin …
Ash in Sydney - by Jake Goetz
ash is falling on the Lidcombe line/
on Carriageworks and Regents Park/
it’s falling on closed-up houses /
where Greg thinks his summer’s fucked …
On the Day You Launch - by Damen O’Brien
This poem won the 2018 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize.
The future of the earth is a series of goodbyes, so you/
practise them in as many languages as you can. Ciao, sayonara./
…
What the Glass Holds - by Jill Jones
The shape of the glass/
is not the same/
as what the glass holds./
The shape of the water/
is infinite pleasure …
Ekphrasis - by Belinda Rule
William Robinson, Passage of Light from the Sea at Numinbah, 2002
… the light and the sky and the distant trees,/
the sheeting of that light/
on the underside of clouds,/
all these things are always/
already here …
I Protest - by Ouyang Yu
Have been dipping / into my / old / journals of the / early sixties / a/ mistake. Now I / feel sad / as / shit …
Pulled Apart by Seahorses - by Gavin Yates
Olive’s, seven in the evening, the tomatoes suffused with Viognier/
from the online store, but Ella Fitzgerald, who has sung to these/
walls before, where deleted lichen has rapidly come on like a fever …
Sonnet 29 - by Stuart Barnes
‘Bruce’? Unforgettable, but ‘In Your Eyes’/
I don’t remember, or the New York state/
trio, or ‘I Don’t Remember’, or cries/
of ‘Boum’, but I played the one that tells fate/
on Sunday afternoon …
Waiting Room - by Felicity Plunkett
Your absence lays its shadow on my skin./
A shadow’s weight is measured by the dark./
Moonflowers open velvet to the night./
You brought the wrong brand of abandon, love …
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