• ‘Companion’ by Jackie Hosking

  in death
  she will leave the shape
  of a cat

   
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• ‘Tattooed Hooves’ by Lorraine Marwood

  The outline of horse’s hooves
  are tattooed into the drought
  baked road. White clay
  gravel hard, and the echo ...

   
• ‘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. ...

   
• ‘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.

   
• ‘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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