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Month: November 2020

becoming

Posted on 27/11/2020 by Mark Prisco

the face indistinct composite says nothing but bluffs, a closed bud a violet the garden hung w starlight no-one sees, the trees undercut, shades between, the plane that glides the voided sky at Pisces.  call it digression, a slip in standards. my dna is 99% gorilla  2% banana, but we’re not similar.  the death of…

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Ambition and Imagery

Posted on 27/11/202027/11/2020 by Sommer Cullingford

I will heave into the hands of hope, spitting from blood-thick mouthfuls – brimming with the ecstasy of once again having bitten off much more than I can chew. I will dislocate into each appetite, thriving headlong towards the outrageous fuchsia of some explicit garden, doomed to grow like a snake eating an antelope. I…

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This Little Bay

Posted on 25/11/2020 by john keast

Crab-legs of rock guard this little bay. It is a half-smile where seabirds ride the inshore swell. It is home to stork and squawking gull, and on the rocky shore oyster catchers’ red daggers prise out creatures that squirm in the sand. The basalt here is caked, split by sun and wave. When it is…

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Looking Back West

Posted on 21/11/2020 by emjay

East west winds. North south rows. Autumn’s chill fingers rubbing vineyards the wrong way.   The brown corduroy suit my mother had made for me My brother’s in aqua the colour of my faded Air NZ satchel and Dad’s MkII Cortina two tone with a carless day sticker.   M*A*S*H, Happy Days or Taxi at…

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Childhood

Posted on 10/11/2020 by Dove Grey

“Look mummy! There’s a shape-changer on the roof! First it was a man, and now it is a cougar!” “-Don’t be silly, boy, shape-changers don’t climb onto rooves.” “Yes yes! I saw it! He’s there.”   The sun beat down on the mother and son, Their little tea party on the deck continued. Howard finished…

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Island

Posted on 05/11/202005/11/2020 by Sommer Cullingford

I land where I am – ripcord born, pacific-eyed and wheeling mad as gannets in smiling gyre, prowling for the cold line of horizon beyond its great gullet of blue. I rouse downward to the terraforming grin of isles bellied by cloud. There must be some kind of foot to pledge to, some thigh-bone in…

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white dog on water is buoyant, lifeless

Posted on 03/11/2020 by Mark Prisco

tortoise lit sprayed w gas walks away maimed mid-mass heads roll flock puffed clods beneath cross stench & the bodies. are these memories/ flat the road up sun-struck dark & dust dries our skin the mind winds measured disinterested but. who was it sunk so desolate? so low alone the m- 6 bowels stirred by…

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