Issue Eight Poetry

The Colour Grey

By Bernadette Gallagher.   He talked of grey, of blue, purple and all the possible pigments that make up grey. He talked of trees, of...

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Eden (breaking free)

By Matthew M.C. Smith   Dream on a breeze of summer eve’s tree-dappled light Do not fear the advancing shadows Let Autumn storms...

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Threads Entwined

By Bernadette Gallagher   For John Philip   You came already formed a silken scarf blowing in the wind.   To unravel would...

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Intangible Flight

By Robyn Rowland   whirling Dervish, Istanbul   Unworn as any adolescent son, the youngest Mevlani Dervish trembling on the cusp...

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The King’s Exile

By Matthew M.C. Smith   for Anne   We fly over girded earth trailing the rise of Apollo light thousands of feet high   The...

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Roots

By Marilyn Humbert   west of Alice Springs the Finke River rambles roots of ancient eucalypts Namatjira paints his soul   ghost...

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RED LIKE BLOOD

By Dr Wendy J. Dunn   Red like blood I plucked a rose Grasped its beauty close to me uncaring of its thorns   Blood red red blood...

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The lost cantatas of Mozart

by Peter Boyle.   The lost cantatas of Mozart are being performed on an island in the wide fork of a river not far from here....

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Lapdogged

by Ian C Smith.   To visit their son, a bearded adult now in what feels to him a fast-forwarding of years, she drives him to the...

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