• ‘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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• ‘da Vinci’s List’ by Alicia Sometimes

  Leonardo da Vinci wrote a list
  of things he wanted to know:
  the cause of tickling
  the tongue of the woodpecker ...

   
• ‘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.

   
• ‘Values’ by Basil Eliades

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

   
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• ‘Companion’ by Jackie Hosking

  in death
  she will leave the shape
  of a cat

   
• ‘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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About Andrew Bromage

Andrew is a thirtysomething individual who laments the fact that polymaths are not valued more. Part artist wannabe, part armchair philosopher, mostly scientist, but all human. Moving Galleries represents Andrew's first formally published poetry, and it marks a departure from his more usual mediocre verse.