Kategorie: Lit-Mag #25

Three Poems Skilled Vacancy “More skilled vacancies on offer.” And I aspire to be a skilled vacancy, always to know the right thing not to do when anything enters my orbit, just how to side-step it or guide it over my shoulder like a well-mannered boy practising Ju Jitsu. A skilled vacancy will reply to… Graeme Miles weiterlesen

The Fall Press On Take short views of life – never further than dinner or tea. – Rev. Sydney Smith Press on, through the delicate day of your ritual reality: the flags on the line, the forks in the drawer, the filial clichés calling from coat-hangers on the back of the laundry door. The verdict… Jordie Albiston weiterlesen

Three Poems At the salt-rimmed coast (1) Young men shout for a red bikini languid under a blue umbrella. A dog barks, lunges at a football bobbing out of reach on modest waves which rush into the hot embrace of yellow sand, & far out, painted against the convergence of blue, a white yacht points… Ian C. Smith weiterlesen

Four Poems ODE TO CLARICE BECKETT, PAINTER (1887-1935) And what else could a father do, but carefully edge you aside? His baby didn’t care for cars and races, so he left your believers on the doorstep. All the old money in Bendigo couldn’t get a ring on your finger, and so he delivered your rope… Bonny Cassidy weiterlesen