Issue 2
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Poetry by Charlotte Waters
searching for divinity on a hot sunday morning circa 2008 the plate is passedaround the circle:one by one, the grown-upstear pads of fleshfrom a thick white loaf.the magpies gossip& i’m clenching my stomachto stop it from warbling,trying my bestto contemplate the cold of hellor a blaze of purity,the promise of a childhoodin god’s arms.porcelain meets Continue reading
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Fiction by Rochelle Pickles
Text Baby The first time I received a text from my friend Sarah’s four-month-old baby, I was wandering the supermarket aisle checking biscuit prices for the perfect middle ground between taste and frugality. The screen lit up the side of my tote bag. Hey, it said. The top of the screen showed a number but Continue reading
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Fiction by Jacqueline Hodder
Polaroid Rainbow Move on big rainbow Go and fly your colours where the rain don’t fall I see the sunset over the saltpans now. — Sister Kate, from the album ‘Lasso Country’ Sister Kate’s lyrics hauled me up the deserted track, all the way to the edge of the tropics, a long, long way from Continue reading
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Fiction by Frank Marrazza
Blood and Black Coffee Here’s how I know. We’re out walking, when from nowhere, a pigeon waddles across our path – white head, but from the neck down, cigarette-ash grey. The delineation is startling, almost doesn’t look real. Lia freezes–I need to catch this, drops her bag and follows the pigeon, phone in hand. The Continue reading
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Poetry by Wing Yau
Smiling Lotus Here, my mother is grinning like a wedge of lemonon a dish. If asked, she’d say she is remembering her collectionof the 50¢-a-piece porcelain figurines in her childhood cabinet. Say cheese. Snap. This one here, barred doors and frameless windowson 2/F, 32 Tai Yuen Street, a balcony floating out of reach of our Continue reading
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Poetry by Heather Taylor-Johnson
Hello / Goodbye 1. First film was The Incredibles, enormous characters in Elastigirl, Frozone, Jack-Jack Parr and him, an adult baby in the seat next to me. He might not’ve blinked the entire time, slept three and a half hours that afternoon. Then, months later, when asked if he liked the movie, he began at Continue reading
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Two Poems by Joachim Li
Waiting you smell rain in the air again,wet, moldless, exasperating. moonlight pours & punctures the greywhetstone. it’s almost real becauseyou see fishing boats cradled bythe propagating wave, paved invitinglike paddle stones in a flickering,shimmering light, spells homecomingacross the sea. it’s almost real becauseyou hear laughter in the rain, dry,distant, deteriorating. shattering of beer bottles to Continue reading
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Two Poems by Bron Morrison
At Surge Capacity No dipping your toe in and testing the waters:it’s a plunge and you’re away -knots downriver before you stop spinning -feet cycling through the murk,stronger swimmers racing by you, in the current, rapids approaching, jostling files, trolleys and assorted surgical stainless steel. A bull shark in the ward,your consultant asks a question,not Continue reading
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Three Poems by Brenda Saunders
B‒Grade Narrative I can’t believe what I’m hearing. Brett is saying something about moving on. All I can feel is my face shrinking under the beauty mask, as I lie here listening, head on the pillow. I can’t really move my mouth to speak, so I let him go on about his need to be Continue reading
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Three Poems by J. Marahuyo
J. Marahuyo is a neurodivergent Filipino-Australian award winning poet residing on Dharug country. Her debut collection will be released early 2025 by WestWords Books. Her work can be found in Cordite Poetry Review and FemAsia, numerous journals and anthologies. She was the recipient of Varuna’s The Writer’s Space online residency 2024 and was shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize 2024. When she’s not writing you Continue reading
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