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Light Spots Seminal fluids, frogs marching sideways to the pond.  In the trees sing song birds unseen the air brazen in th...

C ooking Up Down Farm Under my guidance apples slice the sun into child sized segments which cool on the loosebark kitchen sh...

Lost I dentity There is a bird nest near my window Everyday the mother goes around flying  To find a little worm to feed its ...

Elegy for a Thylacine in the National Museum The last known thylacine, a female named ‘Benjamin’, died alone in her cage at Bea...

I play the perfect cover drive Easing on to my back foot Saturday early early Summer, elevenish a sound of cork like popping ...

MAUNSELL WICKES GALLERY OPENS AN EXHIBITION CELEBRATING  WOMEN’S CONNECTION TO COUNTRY: JUNO GEMES, JUDITH NANGALA CRISPIN, ANA POLLAK,...

River of Dawns With wind in my arms All I’m writing is dreams I can’t remember You’d know I been knifed by a friend and resur...

dolorosa  those years between a charles manson and ted bundy  smile stations of the cross played out on tv black ...

People I met through work The solicitor who hired me without giving me a typing test The officer in charge who employed me af...

Bluepepper has altered its submissions policy ever-so-slightly, and thus we are currently seeking submissions to test the murky water...

The Hand of Padre Pio Naples, Italy 2003 I walked along the old, cobbled street of Via della Sanità to the clamour of church bells....

Stepping into a winter sun while the spaghetti sauce cooks People will always talk. Learn to forgive. Life is hard. It rains, ...

The Sun is not Living It does not keen. It is a vast, unencompassable cauldron,  And gives us light  which we have grown eye...

Unforeseen Endings An old man lived here before our purchase, raised in this home, he became a widower years later, forced ...

 It wasn’t the sleepwalking that bothered me. I woke up outside more often than I care to remember, but still, the sleepwalking never reall...

Running II * At the end of the lane, turn right onto Coolamon Road and right again at Farrer Road. Return past the new housi...

As a platform for open and constructive expression and engagement, Bluepepper shares the international community's grave concerns for t...