• ‘busking on the bridge at Footscray Station’ by Peter Davis

  The wind rhymes with the sound of their pants

  brushing against their legs. The music must shift

  to a higher register, whenever the diesel trains roar. ...

   
• by Avril Bradley

  Art Gallery
  waterwall
  friezes over.

   
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• ‘grey dawn’ by Yvonne Sullivan

  grey dawn
  thin old moon
  alone and radiant

   
• 
• ‘Happiness’ by Chi Vu

  She bought a new car, a
  4WD, and for the first
  time in her life, she
  was still unhappy.

   
• ‘Hurt Sonnet’ by Justin Clemens

  I’m listening to Hurt, which Johnny Cash
  now sings: the needle’s in his voice, a ghost
  lends him its wings, and even with the clash ...

   
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• ‘Self Esteem?’ by Sigourney Young

  Do my ears look big in this?
  You’d tell me if they did,
  Right?
  Cause my forearm clashes with my pants. ...

   
• ‘Values’ by Basil Eliades

  We have velvet theories
  about boys becoming men,
  the mysteries of plumbing ... 

   

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