mares’ tails
loping down the road
holding my hat
Robyn Braithwaite
a layer of dust on the old gelding’s bridle sun-bleached pastures
Jennifer Sutherland
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mangroves
the muddy wave
of a red claw
Glenys Ferguson
warm front
the pelican smell
of wet concrete
Nathan Sidney
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summer holidays
visiting the cousins
who live in woop woop
M Faz
damp morning
overcast skies hang
over the hills hoist
Julie Thorndyke
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rest stop—
a country pub full
of g’days
Lorin Ford
below a dark cloud—
the long roots
of a pulled tooth
Rohan Buettel
reading Homer
dusk’s patina thick
on the olive trees
Nathan Sidney
spreading mortar
in a lemon scented breeze . . .
the bricklayer’s smile
Thomas Landgraf
held in a mist
of white butterflies
the scent of lavender
John Low
controlled burning
in Spring stillness
hazy horizons
Carol Reynolds
leaving time behind
as he goes into care
all dad’s clocks
Bill Wootton
rippled sandstone
lapping an ancient shore
an ancient moon
Simon Hanson
learning the lake’s every shiver spring cygnets
M. Faz
spring snow—
a drift of newborn lambs
in the paddocks
Keitha Keyes
white butterflies
a dance
through delphiniums
Margaret Mahony
delphiniums bend
under the weight
of purple
Kim Nolan
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