Perth, WA – Part 3 of 3

i.

Your Catholic ways

may bring you closer to God

A wedge between us

ii.

Lost in Mandurah

A country town conspires

to entrap tourists

iii.

You, me, here, right now

Once upon a second life

Us in first person

iv.

Getting to know you

all over again – a place

we’ve never been

v.

Windmills win over

plastic flowers, live bouquets

Freo cemetery

Ian Row

Perth, WA – Part 2 of 3

i.

Norfolk Island pines

as Cottesloe as John Street's

eggs benedict

ii.

How do you explain

a lapse of eighteen years?

Life went on.

iii.

Long slow desire

The flesh is willing, unfolds

Old habits die hard

iv.

To get to LA

all her teddy bears must go

Melville car boot sale

v.

“This goes with your jeans….”

Her sales pitch is pitch perfect

A compliment paid

vi.

Busker

Xavier Rudd soundalike

Who are you?

Ian Row

Perth, WA – Part 1 of 3

i.

Going west; coming

back to where we started

a lifetime ago

ii.

A streetscape unchanged

Pizza Express, my old house

Points on my mind map

iii.

Day one, Friday night

Steve - my Air BNB host

Fish between friends

Ian Row

In the moment, sense
flees and enchantment enthralls.
Luminosity

Annie Jeffries

New clock radio
Enigmatic Instructions
Another late start

James Von Sutekh

Dried flecks of cat food
Circling the rim of the cup
Oh - it's your oatmeal.

Guhan Subramaniam

Submitted by Kenton Miller

Spot Haiku 36

i.
Autumn rains
Soak into woollen jackets
Risotto tonight

Cathy Dineen

ii.
Angst as things collide,
In haste I may have bitten
More than I can chew.

James Fetherson

iii.
Scissor Sisters' new song
It's incredibly campy
Fantastically so

Simon Patience

iv.
killing me softly
with double stuffed Oreos
slowy and surely

Ian Row

v.
trip-trip tripping the
anesthetic fantastic
a sub-consc tourist

Dawn Mok

vi. Blame
You were reckless with
my heart. The damage you’ve done,
you thoughtless fugger.


Natalie Au