A note on the contributors to this issue Mal McKimmie Three Adaptations Matt Hetherington Four Haiku Michael Farrell greenwood values Nicola Scholes Green Eggs and SPAM Papa Osmubal At the Macao 2006 Tulip Show Paul Mitchell Until Rebekah Moon Lament Sebastian Gurciullo drain on the public purse try color Shannan Rodda LITTLE responsibilities Simon West Seed Eyes (1) Terry Collett It is all waiting for the still repose Todd Swift Commonwealth Üzeyir Lokman Çayci I Was In These Pages Vernyce Dannells Dessert Victoria Ramsay London Town Santiago Circus

Poetry Editor: Claire Gaskin

Aileen Kelly

Between finger and thumb
Common

Amanda le Bas de Plumetot

family

Andrew Leggett

Harold Holt Transmits A Message Home

Ban'ya Natsuishi

Five Haiku

Carol Jenkins

Party Platform

Carolyn van Langenberg

Fury, a portrait

Charles Frederickson

Emptiness Full of Itself

Chris Brown

Sickie (10.2.06)

Chris Pusateri

3 poems

Diane Fahey

Cormorants at Solstice
Spring News

Fiona Wright

Maggie: An Apology

Grant Caldwell

the cement of our nation

Iain Britton

At the site of the future I light a fire ...
Trafficking

Jeff Crouch

eyelash; eyelash

John Jenkins

The Wedgetails

KC Wilder

destructions dialed in americanski corporat inc
doling out a corporate yuppie clusterfuck misery

Kevin Brophy

Hard Rubbish

Kris Hemensley

'I walk in this world'

Les Wicks

Nameless
Dearly Demented At the Sundowner Nursing Home

Lisa Jacobson

Heartbeat

John McBain

Water, Water Everywhere