living alone—
held
by my cat’s purr
Leanne Jaeger
Watering beans—
extra for the ones you planted
on a visit home
Karen Blaylock
morning round—
one by one I greet
the garden’s skinks
Leanne Mumford
if we could be
as happy as that
magpie dawn
Hazel Hall
he wakes me
with a gentle touch
of his paw
Tom Staudt
bedside table
a well-thumbed poetry book
with new annotations
Vanessa Proctor
Echidna Tracks 