BLUEPEPPER

On the Cusp of Summer, Minnesota             for my mother During the couple weeks when the neighborhood bloomed a pale blue-hue then burst...

naomi is a wind piano melodica seesawing up and down with jeff mangum's breathless baritone.           some hand-rolled           sandal...

cause and effect all woolly flanks turn in one direction like slow motion tennis spectators as a red ute draws dust idling the long drive th...

Persistent Daylight   He was caught in an endless day, persistent sunshine, no darkness, a day that curdled green leaves falling, rotting up...

Saying Goodbye To My First Apartment Farewell, my pocks-like triangle-sized sky. Goodbye, my rib-like frost and navy walls. So long, my sogg...

Awakening Shafts of sound: insistent and clamorous descending from alto to bass, siren through the glass wall and drop into the tiles beneat...

Wild Cherry wood sleeps through winter frozen nights of wondrous dreams waking with spring rain limber green-leafed limbs drink deep of summ...

Estrangement   In a blocked atmosphere away from people — at Donnybrook, all the gates are closed on us. Everybody is hopeless with broken h...

Lichens Little feet join the line of those leaving their sky and earth. As roofs roll into debris one after another that we do nothing is wh...

Tragic Cardigan Now it’s time To let your paunch Lay low In your Grandfather’s sweater. Take off the tight Italian leather shoes Surrender t...

Long Haul Flight Learning to leave things undone is a training for death When you set foot on that plane for a long overseas trip what doesn...

Bluepepper will once again be open for submissions from 9am 26/4/2022 (AEST).  

Bluepepper regrets to announce that we have tested positive for COVID and will not be accepting submissions until our health has improved. S...

Windows  This room has no windows  No above no below  A single bulb dangles lazily  Casing shadows on your face  As it meets my eye  But all...

That Feeling Like No Other Under the cover. Of a thin, worn corrugated sheet  On a bed.  In a shack. By the sea.  With thunderous southerlie...

  Three on the Tree Gold HG Holden Premier nineteen seventy-one sedan with single dint on side door panel installed a decent hi-fi in it pla...

A Little Bit Longer A miraculous arrival has come along and caused a Massive shift around in mind and room as at last This place feels almos...

jerk’s circle   there’s the: bloated one who eats all the free biscuits the: chain smoker the: one who keeps draping a veiny chicken fillet ...

This Hawk There is this hawk That careens along the currents With the sea foam in his eye And the mountain peak Churning in his gut. There i...

the swing  the old, dirty tire hanging from two chains  seesaws, always  empty,  it continues to sway praying for one  person to use it, giv...