• ‘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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• ‘Companion’ by Jackie Hosking

  in death
  she will leave the shape
  of a cat

   
• ‘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 ...

   
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• by Lidia Ostepeev

  Bollywood ringtones
  Brighten my film noire mornings
  On suburban trains

   
• ‘by the creek’ by Emilie Zoey Baker

  a Dusky Moor Hen
  drinks
  some of its home

   
• ‘sun after rain’ by Carla Sari

  sun after rain
  a fox dares me to cross
  her path

   
• ‘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. ...

   

Poetry

Spring 2007 Collection