never so long
give me
some mates
at the game
give me a beer
& some banter
give me yesterday
because
i can’t wait for tomorrow

‘never so long’ first published at Five Fleas October 28th 2022 edited by Robin/Roberta Beach jacobsen
Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry): Evening of October 28, 2022

carefree
those
roadworks
looked ominous

the sign said
detour

we became lost
just going
around the block

‘carefree’ first published at Five Fleas November 30th 2022 edited by Robin/Roberta Beach Jacobsen
https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/

he named her

pumpkin

after which

she cooked that vegie

into a plated smudge

as had her mother

& grandmother

& he ate it

her man

lovingly

cooked to perfection

as if by his own mom

First published at ‘unusual work’ edited by πο Issue 34 October ‘22

i don’t climb
the retractable steps

don’t venture
into my attic

from experience

i prefer to remain
downstairs

where i live

first published October 2022 at Wishbone Words Magazine 4 poems in Issue 8

she’s dill pickling,
my gran

so i watch her push one
into a jar space
i had not seen
saying,

‘there’s always room,’

& in my child’s head
i’m aware

i’m always loving someone
who’s loving someone else

then when i look again

she’s squeezed in
another cucumber.

first published at Hot Pot Magazine March 2^, 2023 edited by Emily Pedroza  https://hotpotmagazine.com/issue-two/

out here

the supermarket

developed a space

in my village

to quickly attract

suburban sprawl

in concrete replication

where dinner table meals

are nutritionally exact

and so when rain falls

it confuses

the street struggle residents

with its shopper trolley clatter

First published at StepAway magazine Edited by Dr. Darren Carlaw December 21^st, 2022 'out here'
out here | stepawaymagazine.com

 

daily dally

news media tells me

of the heat

around the globe

intense

in world leaders

and our lawmakers

whose frustrations

in defence of justice

fumes

enough almost, to start fires

First published at Plum Tree Tavern December 7^th, 2022 & edited by Russell Streur ‘daily dally’
https://theplumtreetavern.blogspot.com/

why am I still living
with the negative effects

of positive thinking

This poem was taken by Antonia Hildebrand editor of 'Polestar Writers Journal' [AUS]. It will appear in the next Issue to be released soon.