creaming sugar
into butter
long summer days
Lynette Arden
only her cat now
shares their high-rise apartment . . .
double-glazed sunset
Rodney Williams
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giddying my mind swirl of summer swifts
Glenys Ferguson
Bunnings sunday
a different dog
down every aisle
Robyn Cairns
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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
the red faces
of Sturt’s desert pea
Uluru sunset
Lorraine Haig
red rain sunset
waterfalls on Uluru
pouring with light
Ron C. Moss
resort day six
frangipani blacken
in the stone bowl
Maurice Nevile
a cabbage tree shadow
swallowed
by the hillside shadow
Carole Harrison
forest wind
across the track
shadows rumba
Marilyn Humbert
hanging low
among the fruit
boab moon
Maurice Nevile
seniors’ night
the last cicada
clears his throat
Desi Cochrane
red centre
all the colours
of Namatjira
Jennifer Sutherland
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
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