Courage in the face of adversity

Our inaugural issue

Komorebi

Shanley & Faith McConnell ○ Back, far back, when the world was very young and sometimes walked the Earth, the Shadow Witch made the dark

melt

Tahmina Maula ○ twilight falls against an august sky / first stars blink / last light stirs

The Empathy Keeper & Road: two poems

Minoti Vaishnav ○ 'There's no more demand for empathy,' she says. So it's gone, I think. Well, that makes sense

A Picnic by the Sea

Hannah Nazri ○ In those years, when Papa and Mama took her to the sea / To collect seashells, to build sandcastles

Tipping Balance

Anya Gleizer, with Rupert Stuart-Smith ○ Oil & Acrylic

four poems, from Fingertips and Ammonite

Georgia Brisco ○ this city / it fizzes and pops / like the cool of my drink / if you sit and listen very quietly /

Storage Shelf Sage

Caroline King ○ For the apple head doll, the first cut / is cruelest. To find its moonmeat / face, cheeks whittled

the City of Contrasts: two poems

Caroline Stewart ○ Love, grace and forgiveness / Let this be the hallmark and desire of our hearts. / To place

The Displacer

Edward McConnell ○ Sally Simpkins' hobby is tinkering. She got that particular bug from watching her father.

Refugee Boy

Micah Hayns ○ Oil and acrylic on perspex and board 8.5" x 7"

Diorama, after Milton

Rebecca Baird ○ On the fourth day he frowned into the tinny, clanging nothing poured in an oil spill of space

;beirut.

Mai Serhan ○ glassless tonight/a city / with more legroom, we curl. / Heads at half-mast pity / the bins, the bombs

Our inaugural issue

Our vision for this inaugual issue is to build a space for greater awareness, support and advocacy.