rhyme – Wordflower

a fire burning low, with ashes and some unburnt square pieces of wood

The front door creaks open — stillness interrupted — heavy footsteps cross the threshold, the waft of body odour displacing fresh air, a familiar voice can be heard, 1 February 20262 February 2026

Defrag / Unflag 31 January 202631 January 2026

Spec-ulations 27 January 202627 January 2026

Cheers for New Year’s, 2026 22 January 202611 January 2026

6 7 21 January 20262 February 2026

striking black and white image of coffee beans, coffee in a cup and milk in a cup...a bit like a yin yang symbol but triangles with the inset contrasting circles of colour

Colour Contrast: A Various And Varied Variety — on Blackness, Whiteness, Greyness, Brownness — by Blacklisted & Anonymous; Whitelisted & Obvious; Gray, Greyer & Greyness; Brownlisted & Balanceness 20 January 202628 January 2026

page of a notebook showing writing and drawings. the drawings are of a life-size cockroach and an enlarged tardigrade or moss piglet. the notes relate to the poem and include its title

Sunset on the human race / A tardigrade could do better / Traditions get mangled, entangled, star-spangled / Genocide as a form of tourism: A slam poetry-esque Longette Lite* from the deviser 14 January 202614 January 2026

A senryu by our newest guest poet, Colleen Harvey 10 January 202610 January 2026

This Earth Keeps the Memory of Gadigal Footsteps Through Fire, Silence, Survival, and Unbroken Song Across Two Centuries of Dispossession and Resistance – 27th December 2025 31 December 202527 December 2025

Wind-back 21 December 202522 December 2025