supporting local Artists
supporting local Artists
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…
by JO McINERNEY Dislocation a tanka string a pale snail clinging to the bricks beside our door as the waters rise we all seek shelter neighbours crowded on a football field thick smoke obscuring what the fire may have left…
by MEGAN CARTWRIGHT stinging nettles trail tendrils to the inlet’s mouth limpets, we climb rocks of weathered honeycomb to scatter ashes below
by REGINA (GINA) leaning against a rock my toes dig into the sand a deserted beach barefoot, years ago I stumbled as we danced the magpie postures on a sheep’s back in tall wheat grass the discarded red remains of…
by JENNIFER SUTHERLAND returning to my childhood home a breeze tinkles the windchimes I can almost hear my mother’s voice calling us in for dinner the park fills with fluorescent birds at the lantern festival I disappear like a raven…
by MADHURI PILLAI sunlit fluffs of floating clouds – I watch my dog watch rising hot-air balloons in deepening dusk the park reverberates with soaring cicada songs… melding into the shadows a man and his dog gym foyer… after the…
by JULIE CONSTABLE forest temple old stone Buddhas gather beneath the canopy detached head smiles sprouts mossy curls Wat Umong, Thailand in the alps winter slumped snow gum ancient swirling trunk T’ang tri-colour glazed chestnut, green and cream
by ROBYN CAIRNS sudden dive of a black shouldered kite the birders view the day moon plane tree leaves pressed wet to Carlton paths we share a bowl of autumn risotto lighthouse romance on the limestone coast a sequence of…
by NICOLETTA GLOD steps muffled in roasted orchard darker blues between branches with every leaf departing the final burning crown of glory lighting the sunset
by JENNIFER FELL strings of tinsel around the camellia… a worker waves the bulldozer toward the emptied house Davies Street, Warragul, VIC today’s murmuration of starlings – specks of mud flit across my windscreen Plantation Lane, Abbeystead, Lancashire, UK