New South Wales – Wordflower

River with mangroves and a boardwalk path with someone walking away

My first writing retreat 19 February 202617 February 2026

“At the first chance you know it will shrug/ you off, as lightly as a leaf” 18 February 202618 February 2026

the edge of a concrete driveway with blue metal inclusions where it meets the lawn and various weeds are growing, including a groundcover with round leaves

Tiny brown guy 16 February 202616 February 2026

portrait painting of Captain James Cook dressed formally and with a map spread out in front of him, but he's looking away from it

Cook was cooked 14 February 2026

Ten impossible things 13 February 202613 February 2026

A different day — an ocean pool — more forgetting — a smile that once would have fluttered a heart — no scalpels and luck holds firm 29 January 202629 January 2026

6 7 21 January 20262 February 2026

view of mainly blue sky with light cloud and a slim slice of ocean at the bottom. There is a bronze sculpture of a woman at the right hand side, looming large

At the local swimming pool — the only one with unbarbered legs and no towel, chocolates dragging me down — but the sky is blue 17 January 202613 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