POETRY
Melanie Brazzell
buoyant fragments
Begin trying
William Doreski
A Novelist's Eye
Kristine Ong Muslim
Geek Girl
Benjamin Nardolilli
Contra Cosmos
Caleb Puckett
Meeting by Morning
Call for Exodus
Ross White
Actaeon
A Roman
Ryan
Quinn Flanagan
26
Years
For the past 26 years
I’ve rolled out of bed
and put my right sock on
before my left.
This morning I put my left on first
by mistake
and was paralysed with fear.
Naked in the absence
of the certainty of
26 wool lined years.
For the past 26 years
I’ve rolled out of bed
and put my right sock on
before my left.
This morning I put my left on first
by mistake
and was paralysed with fear.
Naked in the absence
of the certainty of
26 wool lined years.
Musings
of a Man Impelled to
Moments of Mad Wakefulness
All the lights in the neighbourhood
are extinguished
except the torch in the back of my brain
that stays alight
night after night
like a Guernica curse
after three bottles of wine.
I haven’t the faintest idea why
the gods have chosen to throw a
party in my head but
the works keep coming.
I feel as though I could revel all night
and I do.
Like the last flame at sea
before the ship goes down
I remain defiant
in the night.
All the lights in the neighbourhood
are extinguished but I
I live on.
All the lights in the neighbourhood
are extinguished
except the torch in the back of my brain
that stays alight
night after night
like a Guernica curse
after three bottles of wine.
I haven’t the faintest idea why
the gods have chosen to throw a
party in my head but
the works keep coming.
I feel as though I could revel all night
and I do.
Like the last flame at sea
before the ship goes down
I remain defiant
in the night.
All the lights in the neighbourhood
are extinguished but I
I live on.
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