Black Rice & Passionfruit Salad

Morning finds her curled like a prawn Around a stuffed blue Pegasus, or the smallest Prawn-pink lion. Or else she’s … More

Blistered Summer Salad

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Do you remember how great summer holidays were as a kid? A … More

islands parting tides as meteors burn the air. Oysters powder to chalk in my hands. – from ‘The River’ by … More

I’m still asleep but you know I will wake if you need – from ‘Wangal Morning’, Evelyn Araluen It’s been … More

I bend to it willingly, this patch of earth and its green things, in their own world (though I hold … More

“There is not city But the city within. No door, but the door To simple wisdom. We walk, dumb As … More

Something woke me, something feathered up against me in a dream. Perhaps its soft tip of wing skipped across my … More

… again the emerald green pallu of her sari tucked in at her hips, across her breast, and cough it … More

“…balance of humors, coconut liquor thinned / by broth, sour pulp of tamarind / cut through by salt, set off … More

Spoon of everyone. Spoon of the belly. Spoon of the empty belly. Spoon of the full one. Spoon of no … More