Tag Edition4

Hemat Malak

by HEMAT MALAK autumn leaves hang beside flying foxes in the breeze… I unpeg the line of socks and carry them inside twigs with berries pile up on the footpath under the galah… so many wasted words in our conversations…

Alleyne Hall

Alleyne Hall has been a member of the Time to Write group through Baw Baw Arts Alliance. Writing poetry for about ten years, she creates poems and narratives, with a focus on nature and spiritual matters, travel and family. She…

Gavin Austin

by GAVIN AUSTIN Alberton Cemetery A tanka sequence clouds part as ladders of light span liminal spaces a walk through time into this thin place magpie flutes filter from gumleaves overhead branches carve deep shadows whispering of the past marking…

Craig Lincoln

by CRAIG LINCOLN through the window I see trees bend and sway as leaves dance about I stay inside as is my wont viewing the scene through glass

by 石狩湾 (ishikari bay) i fall asleep

by Carl Walsh across breakwater port and starboard light drifts of hinoki wide as arms are long calling seagulls herring lodge on headland slips to silence rusted port machinery poised as close to vladivostok as tokyo ship noses out of…

Hazel Hall

by HAZEL HALL Silent Soloist Macquarie ACT 2001 – a tanka string trash and treasure the porcelain boy with cello – she ransacks her purse and sifts through silver a gold coin and the cellist is hers she gazes at…

Gregory Piko

by GREGORY PIKO damp blossoms on the pavement in Kanazawa a sheet of gold leaf clings to my matcha ice-cream

Agi Dobson

by aGI DOBSON gnarled poplars and oaks leaves orange, yellow, scarlet a last bravado hairdresser tomorrow turning grey to blazing red Mossvale Park, South Gippsland, VIC grey sterile room single bed, a chair on the nightstand mints, glasses and a…

Bradlee Jennings

by BRADLEE JENNINGS East to East an autumn road trip through Victoria: a tanka string three cooling towers pierce the Gippsland morning sky through the fog blanket unannounced and surprising they call back to bygone wars rail bridges unused rotting…

Dijanne Cevaal

Dijanne Cevaal comes from Morwell, which is a city on land of the Brayakaulung people of the Gunaikurnai. She has had poetry published in previous editions of Catchment and has written several self-published booklets celebrating place and her art. She…