He had heard the three a.m. whistling as if from his own bones. He had fallen asleep on the sofa again with the hound dog who knew how to curl into itself to preserve the dark and all the sounds th…
The frowning top of a ferris wheel. The rotating lights stop, and I wonder for a moment if all time has stopped, too; a streetlight changes and we continue on. But somewhere up there near the top y…
If you want to elevate your discoursejust add “existential”.That dignifies the commonplace with profundity.Dyspepsia, for example, is merely heartburn,but existential dyspepsiais a much more signif…
An Excuse For Not Returning the Visit of a Friend by Mei Yaochen
Do not be offended because I am slow to go out. You know Me too well for that. On my lap I hold my little girl. At my Knees stands my handsome little son. One has just begun to talk. The other c…
In our buoyant backyard, mounds of them, washed in pale pink. They bob above the grass, buoys on a sea of forgetfulness. Today we have war. Refugees dodge the sun, sleep on beds of grass torn from …
To settle here at last into the longed-for feathertrace of rest, cool sediment of answer root, spider, seed or snail, whatever was once eager humid, scented to be saved just now just as a broken st…
Cultivation of empathy is a more effective basis for ethical behavior than instilling fear of punishment, here or in the hereafter. We’re too easily convinced that punishment isn’t likely or even (…
Not proclamations, not carved marble promises, not headlines, not smoke rehearsing its pose. But the hand of wind rearranging clouds, the alphabet of rain sketching itself away on tin, on glass, on…
It Is Not the River Carrying Us Away by Shevaun Cooley
The armoured bream glint and scatter. We bunt the hull against a submerged pylon. The anchor chatters its chain against the gunwale and vanishes. We can feel in the swing of the dinghy how the anch…
Meteorological Memories of the Perth Summer of 2024 by Coral Carter
Week Forecast No rain No rain No rain No rain No rain No rain No rain Fortnight Forecast No rain No rain No rain No rain No rain No rain No rain No rain No rain No rain No rain No rain No rain No r…
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