• ‘first frost’ by Rob Scott

  first frost --
  the kindling takes
  with a hiss

   
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• ‘Companion’ by Jackie Hosking

  in death
  she will leave the shape
  of a cat

   
• ‘Values’ by Basil Eliades

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

   
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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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• ‘iron grows in supernovas’ by Maurice McNamara

  ten billion light years away a star explodes
  its light still out there
  building the iron for my car
  the dust that built our planet earth ...

   
• ‘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 ...

   
• ‘sun after rain’ by Carla Sari

  sun after rain
  a fox dares me to cross
  her path

   

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