Angry Young Girls

Sue Clennell (Western Australia)
Read by Mags Webster
From Sue's CD The Van Gogh Cafe

The Thracian

Sue Clennell (Western Australia)
Read by Mags Webster
From Sue's CD The Van Gogh Cafe

Monochrome

Dementia's tweezers pluck her apricot memories,
pop Wordsworth's daffodils like spilt beads.
X-rays expose the bullet holes
while medicos check for the calibre,
sift through the embers of a dying skull.
There is a little Halloween here,
white ants in the art deco,
you get the picture.
The dice falls like a guillotine.


Sue Clennell (Western Australia)
First published in SpeedPoets

I'm thinking French kisses...

I'm thinking French kisses     bruised tongues
stepping on diamonds in an ouch come hither frenzy
I'm thinking clink and chew the ice cubes
taste the green of onions
squeeze sunflower juice
watch trapezes on the edge of symmetry
Dare I say it?
This is love.


Sue Clennell (Western Australia)
First published by Speedpoets

Domestic

Scrubbing off your angel spit,
I untangle the snarl of lavender promises.
Although you have flown away home
with other dappled ladybirds
I preserve this apricot taste in my mouth,
grip and glimmer to false hopes,
stretch cat-like
and lick my memories.


Sue Clennell (Western Australia)
First published by Speedpoets

Babylon

Young men cry in the desert
surf waves of silver bullets,
shed mother's apple crumble
school scars     siblings' bites,
swap smoky jokes as they drift
sand-like into men.


Sue Clennell (Western Australia)
First published by Speedpoets

Marry the rain

I could marry the rain
as the breeze curvets
as the day burns down
as the grass dreams stone.

I could marry the rain
in its high heeled days
in its runes and bells
in its wishbone light.

I could marry the rain
with its love of green
with its filigree
with its eggshell shine.

I could marry the rain
match its cyclic swell
match its froggish cup
match its constancy.


Jan Napier (Western Australia)

First published in dotdotdash