• ‘hazel’ by Ashley Capes

  little girl sweeps herself
  across the park
  a pretty burn
  of yellow cloth ...

   
• ‘Happiness’ by Chi Vu

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

   
• ‘the house of water’ by Alana Kelsall

  I crumple the sea in my dreams wake
  to the shallow pool of my head
  I should go North lose weight catch up
  with the other divers hear words slip jelly-like ...

   
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• ‘I will see you there when I go’ by Andrew Bromage

  Outside the Library,
  the pigeons do to Redmond Barry
  what Ned Kelly never could.

   
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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. ...

   
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• ‘Values’ by Basil Eliades

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

   

Poetry

Transformation 2009 Collection