shifting camps
in endless war
sibling rivalry
Jahan Tyson
Kyneton café
a little girl serves
empty teacups
Wendy Purcell
all year
my favourite flower
china tea set
Judith E.P. Johnson
Metamorphosis—
from molten glass
an angel flies
Pip Griffin
windblown sky
a contrail threads
the clouds together
Robyn Braithwaite
forked lightning . . .
the cockatoos’
sudden silence
Elaine Riddell
blackberry thorns
her mother
finally at peace
Helen McDonald
closed blinds
the weight of dust
on mum’s jewellery
Penny Szentkuti
doctors’ rooms . . .
knowing the test results
I stare at the hills
Rob McKinnon
first rain
new shoots pierce
lawn’s brown lattice
Kirsten Johnston
bracelet making
the rain beading
on the window
Sophie Emma Taylor
change of season
I swirl tea leaves
to a fresh pattern
Lynette Arden
tidal bore—
the rough wash
of his words
Lysa Collins
wedding ring
where you left it
before you left
Kash Thomson
a twist of guilt
crimes of the past
heavy this load
Maeve Archibald
fall out
with a friend—
the comfort of waves
Lyn Reeves
gardenia at midnight
a drunken song
of scent
Maria Koukouvas
too late
questions I should have asked
my parents
Ron Chato
wineglass brimful
at dinner with her parents
surface tension
Rodney Williams
radiating circles
on a calm pond . . .
my anxiety
wanda amos
native seed pods
carpet the earth
a birthing forest
Jennifer Zimmer-Wilson
native garden
poetry written
outside the lines
Fiona H Evans
hummingbird moths
around native foxgloves
the sea’s soft murmur
Marietta McGregor
sheltered reef—
she speaks of a friend
taken beyond
Warwick Rope
Echidna Tracks 