supporting local Artists
supporting local Artists
by SAMANTHA SIRIMANNE HYDE Travelling Back a tanka string from Colombo, Sri Lanka monsoon rain… faltering at the temple with a lotus bloom I’m back with grandma at her ancestral shrine the tuk tuk stops at our childhood gate to…
by WANDA AMOS gulf rainsslowly flowing south—packing their pouchesscoops of pelicansrelocate through the mistechoing from skyscrapersa coxswain’s calland the slap of oars…Yarra sunrise dark desert skiesprojecting millions of starsthe thrill of sleepingbeneaththe Southern Cross in the dust …
by Mark Clough Prompted by the 2023 Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage How Delicious This Anonymity This Stranger In A Strange Land No Who … No Where … No Why to dread No Knowing the path that I now tread How Sweet It…
by Veronica Troup her mother-self dissolved O o in a shimmer of flying fish 0 – arms belly hair tendrilled o O she became o – amongst their silver fins 0o a rare shock of magic oo O welcomed back…