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Haze
Kim Cope Tait writes of Ranfurly in boxes, fights and reconciliation, asphalt, eels, pumpkin soup and cheese scones in this expansive poem of young masculinity.
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Love Poetry (canal & cutis)
Meander Farrow writes about appearance, reaction, and truth in two love poems born from gazing at their partner across her gender transition.
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Te Whāriki Aroha
In this personal and vulnerable essay for ‘future ANCESTORS’, Rangimarie Sophie Jolley reflects on whānau, whakapapa, and takatāpuitanga. Carrying these thoughts with her, she writes to future mokopuna with love in her heart.
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This is not about Chilli and Wendy from Bluey
A poem from Natasha Hope-Johnstone about sapphic yearning and rage at 2:00 pm on a Saturday while drinking tea somewhere in the suburbs of Meanjin/Brisbane.
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only 20
KC Marshall explores a turmoil-filled relationship in her early twenties and its impacts on her mental health both at the time and years later.
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For what it’s worth
‘For what it’s worth’ is a poem penned in a frantic reflection of the intoxicating and often nauseating sensation of falling in love when you are young.
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floodgates
‘floodgates; is a poem from kī anthony that tiptoes around self-actualisation, desire, and mutual destruction.
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Moonlighting
A piece by Dani Yourukova in which a dungeon-crawling, adventure game is also secretly about the relationship between value and time, the evils of capitalism, and the financial precarity that comes with being a working artist.
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An Ordinary Evening
Five people sit down together at the end of the night to play a game of truth or dare. Little do they know that something else is setting the rules.
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your shame
Overcoming your own shame is hard enough, but how long can we shoulder someone else’s?
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Icebreaker
Coco seeks to break the ice and find what lies beneath the surface. “I like the raw relief of the skies spit – I don’t like exhaust melting down my spine.”
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