Sacred Body Designs

a vastness of ocean

LiteratureLucien NoëlApril 8, 2024identity, nature, poetry

biết về đâu

half of me belongs squatting on plastic stools

LiteratureJayden NguyenApril 8, 2024identity, vietnamese, family

Postcards from the North

I ate oranges and didn’t know they tasted like sunset from Castle Hill.

LiteratureNicholas OsiowyApril 5, 2024poetry, nature, queensland

Lichenisation in a Cloister of Gold

It exists within another.

LiteratureEloise GoodhewFebruary 23, 2024

Alien love letter

Every life spread out, mine parallel to yours parallel to everyone else’s.

Literature, ArtKhira EisenbergFebruary 23, 2024

Cherri Rype

Voyeurism is an affair of the mouth.

LiteratureLameah NayeemFebruary 23, 2024

Porous Romance, love through degrees of obliteration

You move through the grain of closed eyes, calling through the undergrowth of my body.

LiteratureJake StarrFebruary 16, 2024poetry, love

The Great Magpesis: On Unrequited Love

We seem to think that our place on the spectrum between divinity and mayhem comes down to how loved we are.

LiteratureKate SaapFebruary 16, 2024romance, love, philosophy

Scalp

One by one, friends gloved their hands and got to work; my ridged, lumpy canvas morphing and shifting, follicles taking on new forms every fortnight.

LiteratureMiles Hiroshi HuynhFebruary 16, 2024creative writing, family, love

Wet Sun

people watching. i peer ruthlessly from behind my darkened eyes. observing and absorbing like film.

LiteratureSoleil MistryJanuary 11, 2024poetry, europe, travel, art

The Sun Worshippers

Say Goodbye.

LiteratureJoan de la KagsawaDecember 21, 2023relationships, poetry, sydney, love, breakup

Small talk with your left-behind

I wonder whether she’s praying, or meditating, and whether she’s prone to impatience, but the 01:01 train arrives before I work it out. It takes four minutes to depart; four minutes to expose the translucent creature perched in her place.

Art, LiteratureClaudia BlaneDecember 8, 2023art, culture, trains, fiction, memory

Dependency

I am forced to remember it back again. The Sellotape-tear of flesh.

LiteratureAlexa Hansen WeeksNovember 27, 2023memory, sydney, reflection, mother, daughter, relationships

Haunting in reverse

Coming off antidepressants has been comparable to ‘coming off’ Mum, which I have been doing concurrently.

LiteratureCharlie KennedyNovember 27, 2023memory, sydney, reflection, mother, daughter, relationships

Fitzroy

I was caught like a fishhook / in the soft dab of my lower lip.

LiteratureZoe HercusNovember 27, 2023memory, poetry, sydney, reflection, persona

Dependency

I am forced to remember it back again. The Sellotape-tear of flesh.

LiteratureAlexa Hansen WeeksNovember 18, 2023

Trial by memory

There’s nothing particularly beautiful about the train station.

LiteratureLameah NayeemNovember 18, 2023

Lost in observation

Saunders waded even deeper. This time he ﬂoated on his stomach, observing through the transparent pool ﬂoor a ﬂock of people who were most likely unaware that he was their omniscient god.

LiteratureStella MeierOctober 23, 2023fiction, people-watching, satire, comedy

64gb

I love my Digi-cam

LiteratureHugo HayOctober 16, 2023digicam, photography, friendship, poetry

She did not understand the fun of shooting birds

In her novels and private correspondence, the gap was narrowed. What was human became animal and what was animal became human.

LiteratureAngus McGregorOctober 16, 2023poetry, virginia woolf, animals, literature, literary analysis