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After a full summer of not being able to sit comfortably at my desk and work, there’s nothing so wonderful as having th...

I had to let her go on up the stairs ahead of me because of how she took them. Always, a jaunty dance of rapidly, three steps up then t...

Angel-Dusted and bath-salted, he aimed a corkscrew into his palm and twisted and twisted until it screwed...

The underside of river run From now on this word and light will be all that you have a tiny stone carri...

Mourning Morning  My mother's house surrounds  me in a shroud: the tinkling  of the teaspoon as my father stirs  his tea...

Harder Times a gray-and-white photograph of woods that were gray and white in an olden November dark gray o...

Fickle Brain   My girlfriend, Molly, mock/taunts me, tangos with petunias between her teeth, misreads her cues, mistakes an "I...

The Nightly Trip Here's the nightly trip again as you drive along the serpentine Bangalow...

When My Wife Is in Her Garden When my wife is in her garden,  she becomes a ballerina moving with the morning b...

As a hub of the poetry community, Bluepepper will occasionally serve to promote the creative endeavours of one of the members of that commu...

Hellespont Queens Parade Clifton Hill I swam the pavement straits to be cradled in the sacristal lay of your curling virginit...

Tequila Single life is-tequila with lime, shots of travelers, jacks, diamonds, and then spades, holding back ac...

The Last Report of the Day                       I saw you, Adrienne Rich. In my dream we were walking like old...

Enigmatic Succubus (Part II) "Look! It's the moon!” I said as I dug my toes into the dark shadows in the sand. “It's ...

The inbox is empty! Bluepepper needs something to sink its teeth into! Poets far and wide are welcome to submit re the submission gui...

Pivot Say that you are a pivot and to one side there is desire and to the other side a different desire, co...

Over the weekend I was roundly lambasted by a Melbourne playwright and poet for daring to suggest that there exist other equally viable sou...

insignificance getting on at the Wayville Showgrounds station he takes a selfie in his new tats & tanktop s...