Category: Magic

  • ‘Hinges’ and other poems by Jax NTP

    hinges it is easy to obsess over small objects paperclips spoons and q-tips when self grooming generates silence — virginal trumps untamable — the renunciations of dullness do not lead to desire with upturned hands, razors, at rest it is easiest to use sadness as a utensil to push people away spiders construct traps from…

  • “Writing with Light” and other poems by Gerry Stewart

    Writing with Light Finnish Photography Notes Guided by imaginary intersections, fumbling our heavy DSLRs, we learned the rules for rhythm and repetition, aperture and cropping. My notebook sketched the tutor’s words in haste. They resurface beyond the lens. Organise your space. I carve out this new home without maps, using rough translations and neighbourly advice.…

  • “Curlew” and other poems by Rosalin Blue

    Lonesome Occupation Up – up and away in my little studio under the sky drawn back alone – to write That loneliness is the room for concentration bears the space for inspiration strikes the key of motivation to create origination with insane illumination and a wild determination, the poetic flow in motion — oh that cosmic emanation…

  • “Needlepoint” and other poems by Erin Vance

    Hiraeth In the turpentine afternoon I wanted to beat my wings— hollow so hollow. And in the rectal evening 
I wanted to be a hummingbird. A hum m ing bird. In the frost-swept night I wished you a Lamb. Soft like cotton balls and languid with musk. Turn me into a violent fresco,
 Lamb, and…

  • “Fireflies” and other poems by Christine A. Brooks

    “Fireflies” and other poems by Christine A. Brooks

    house of beauty just three houses down from my pale green house a magnificent dark red house sat regally on a throne of both beauty & possibility on a street that never quite fit in with the rest of the city it was a dead end, in a time & place undefined by class middle,…

  • “You Really think I wanted him” and other poems by Melvina King

    “You Really think I wanted him” and other poems by Melvina King

    You really think I wanted him You’ve heard the American accent slip from my tongue and I can bet I know what you want to talk about before you ask why I wanted Trump, so you can bask in your feelings of politically superiority take a look at me don’t just focus on my accent…

  • “Chattel” and other poems by Kushal Poddar

    “Chattel” and other poems by Kushal Poddar

    Panther Unbound My blind uncle asks if it is a fountain. “Ah, a fountain!” he says. “No, a dog licking!” I smile. We both know we fool around a lot. I turn the shower off and rub his back. My mother broke my air-gun against my spine when I failed to sum up success with…

  • “Cloud Forest” and other poems by Ellen Chia

    “Cloud Forest” and other poems by Ellen Chia

    Cloud Forest On montane roofs, Veil-thin sojourners Serpentine through green Flightless birds — Myriad crowns perching One-legged, spreading Multi-tiered wings Plush with plumes now Dripping fresh With the gilded bath. In the plumage larders, The green birds set to Spin their sugary fares, While at it, Gazillions of their Tiny lungs Are humming the Three…

  • “mia council casa es tu council casa” and other poems by Ali Whitelock

    “mia council casa es tu council casa” and other poems by Ali Whitelock

    i am the sea that january. prestwick beach. the sea heaves. swallows herself down like cough syrup in thick slow gulps. we’d sat on this rock just two days before, both of us with our backs to the world staring out across and into the thickness. i counted a thousand and one seagulls that day…

  • ‘Everything’ and other poems by Evelyn Moloney

    ‘Everything’ and other poems by Evelyn Moloney

    1. Everything   It’s truly a chaotic thing to suddenly see   starlight, heaven and everything   in someone’s eyes   2. Sky   The sky spilled sadness into paper cups   and   lilac clouds soaked up the dreams of a thousand grey print press people   with their coffee stained sleeves, keyboard click…