Poetry

Autumn 2008 Collection

‘freedom’ by Amanda le Bas de Plumetot

pet shop floor -
by the finches’ cage
two sparrows

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‘(…untitled)’ by Michelle Leber

idling in traffic
in rear vision mirror
two girls kissing

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‘flash’ by Jen Jewel Brown

flash!
one fish
leaps to the breaking day

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‘The future is…’ by Andrew Bromage

2050
nursing home full of senior citizens
with eyebrow piercings

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‘Great Melbourne Architecture’ by fee sievers

Federation Square –
what shape would you
rather be?

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‘marriage’ by Jackie Hosking

marriage
do you take this woman, this man
for granted?

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‘Mobile phone’ by Shelley O'Reilly

the mobile rang
in an empty carriage -
nobody heard

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‘Southern Cross’ by Rhonda Poholke

Southern Cross Station
where are all your stars
parked?

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‘BBQ’ by sunny sun

under the glaring sun
frowning at the decision
sausage or steak?

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‘Pigeon.’ by Lauren Dalman

pigeon -
why do you choose
the black wire?

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‘untitled’ by Anna Fern

rainbow lorikeets
paint bomb
a bare Melbourne winter

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‘Cup Day’ by Mary Hind

Cup Day—
why am I no longer
his favourite?

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‘A meditation’ by Angela Smith

year after year
perched on a bar stool at Pelligrini’s
watching my reflection age

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‘A Question’ by Louise Box

smouldering moon
St Kilda pier
‘No’, she answers, ‘I cannot.’

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‘Snowfall’ by Cathy Altmann

Lake Mountain snowfall -
in my hand
my daughter’s first tooth

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‘Closing time’ by Sasha Baskett

Saturday, 4pm
Prahran Market spruiker pleads
‘give peas a chance’

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‘In the midst’ by Ashlee Higgins

right now
in the midst
we fly

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‘Suzanne McCourt’ by Suzanne McCourt

at the traffic lights
we stop quarrelling
green we go again

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