CONTRIBUTORS

Ion Corcos

Ion Corcos was born in Sydney, Australia in 1969. He has been published in Cordite, Meanjin, Westerly, Plumwood Mountain, Southword, Wild Court, riddlebird, and other journals. Ion is a nature lover and a supporter of animal rights. He is the author of A Spoon of Honey (Flutter Press, 2018).

http://www.ioncorcos.wordpress.com

Ruins

On the wall, an old Ottoman carpet, a white curtain over the window. Only two days ago we arrived on a late ferry. A man plays a bouzouki, its name given after the Turkish word bozuk, meaning broken. You left …

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A Game of Life You Don’t Always Know You’re Playing

A short history of songbirds: declivities, banging pans, eyes scratched out of religious icons painted on cave walls. In the marrow of debate, the preservation of power. You pretend not to see: in stones, the disappearing trees, the lobster flaying …

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Lion’s Bridge

The seats were covered in snow in February, and the screech of trams as they passed Lavov Most, Lion’s Bridge, muffled the water of the Vladaya. A woman walks in red heels outside a bakery. The old communist buildings are …

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Lovely Windows

Broad sand flats, crows and gulls on the verge, white lines in the sky; on the other side, past Flat Holm island, Cardiff; no border, just a sign in both English and Welsh, on our way to Swansea. Wet, mist …

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