Tasmanian Times
Poetry & Short Stories
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1.1KThe Making of a Post-Modern Testament …
Late modernity carries excess cargo, a plague of barnacles & a loss of compass. Fix it. THE SECULAR FUNDAMENTALIST The making of...
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A parrot from the past …
The parrot came from the north, carried on winds of salt spray and desert dust, and fragments of dead leaf of wattle...
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I want the truth …
Debbie Lee• Inspired by Tell All The Truth by Emily Dickinson I want the truth; not slanted speaking, not crooked dealing. I...
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The Lift Home
Bronwen MangerYou had me at that glance – chasms clear of words, speaking the holy language with your salivating eyes across the...
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He’ll
Bronwen Manger*He’ll step out from wreckage in tap shoes, turn the valley’ to Vegas and call me President. He’ll be cats for...
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A BURDOCK-CLAWED MY GOWN
Emily Polites*(after Emily Dickinson’s poem by the same name) What’s a girl to do If a burr invades her shoe? She’s the...
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OLD SHOE
Thomas KentI know you now, old shoe Know the way you glance out your corners While I try to keep up with...
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the night porter
Thomas Kentthis mundane man who a combination of received ambition and blind chance has placed at the head of a kingdom is,...
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Scoop Boy, Melbourne, 1890
Thomas KentCharlie’s me name, eleven years old this summer I’m a horse shit clearer, that’s what I do The crossing of Bourke...
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I leaned in for the kiss …
I leaned in for the kiss. He leaned in for the kill. AND … The context … Amber Wilson
