Journal
Articles
The half-life of Ant Zaniolo
THIS IS THE one memory of Ant I fully trust. I’m in the backyard, in the veggie patch littered with...
Finding you above Kyoto
Finding you above Kyoto stone cats in red knits lined a narrow canal sweetened water swirled in bowls of fallen leaves staining my hands...
Mount Trepidation
THE MOUNTAIN WAS a sheer volcanic core that rose improbably from the lush plain. It had been named Mount...
The gift
My younger sister’s just now sent me a maxim that our mother used, mostly in regard to others; then, each day as...
The mists of down below
THERE WAS NOTHING Agent Kayl Green feared more than the kindness of strangers, something that could never really be...
Quince season
our kitchen turns rosaries of light in ginger and lemon outside the fib of things fading down our evergreen seasons ...
Talon
(I thought it lost like a gate left open or a one-winged parenthesis, the hooked talon my father brought back from India in 1932,...
Weekend in the capital
I’m 65 per cent more likely to be myself here in the capital of same-sex coupledom it’s true I like to...
Conversations with the navigator
Walking alone, Roaring Forties buffeting our island, my haphazard heart cast away, I see Matthew’s sloop split the strait....
Eating fire
it’s quite okay to eat fire there are rules a trick to it so long as you don’t inhale or...
At the Russian restaurant: Audio edition
Listen to Lee Kofman read aloud her short story 'At the Russian restaurant', a vivid tale of love, belonging...
All mod cons
Is European Modernism any different to what we’ve inherited in Australia and made our own? In our own rush to be a modern nation, did we also forget to learn its exclusion clauses, without those special exceptions to the rules that mostly applied?
