• ‘Chick Lit’ by Vivian Yang

  I am a chick
  You don’t call it lit
  But I read it.
  I am the protagonist
  The girl who loses part of herself ...

   
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• ‘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. ...

   
• ‘Night Frequencies’ by David McCooey

  The lights in the street
  are gold or white or blue.

  The primitive grass says nothing
  of what’s to come. ...

   
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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.

   
• ‘everything we ever changed our minds about’ by Sean M Whelan

  you told me
  you loved it when the trees changed their minds
  and covered the ground
  with a million veined post-it notes ...

   
• ‘first frost’ by Rob Scott

  first frost --
  the kindling takes
  with a hiss

   
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About fee sievers

Fee is a writer and runs Rebus Press, a small organisation that assists authors self-publish their work. She also edits POAM, the poetry newsletter of the Melbourne Poets Union. She recently completed a Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing at Greensborough NMIT.