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ISSUE 02
  1. Home
  2. Maisie Broadhead
  3. Avina Tarom
  4. Matte Dixon
  5. Maria Blackman
  6. Benjamin Shaw
  7. Maria Hill
  8. Jessica Fairburn
  9. Melinda Mo
  10. Izma Haider
  11. Haytham Trueheart
  12. Jack Farrugia
  13. Tim Loveday
  14. Charlotte Newman
  15. Kubra Iqbal
  16. Jason Bell
  17. Cas Hugo
  18. Sasha Hart
  19. Ned Forrest
  20. Scarlett Garland
  21. Phoebe Fleming
  22. Ashlee Palmer
  23. Victoria Lawson
  24. Aynie Lane
  25. Magnolia Yang
  26. Julia Twomey
  27. Annabella Tartaria
  28. E.M Bancroft
  29. Asli Idil Kaynar
  30. Anna Merlo
  31. J.R Haro
  32. Mitchell Bombolas
  33. Zoe Mott
  34. Leah Mustard
  35. Heather Wadeson
  36. Finn Newsway
  37. Alex Maclaren
  38. Sharyn Sale
  39. Sarah Birch
  40. Sofia Clarke 
  41. Em Tobin
  42. Zara Martins 
  43. Alex Cooper-Williams
  44. Brittany Bentley
  45. Kristen Flynn
  46. Kaine Green
  47. Phoebe Hancox
  48. MUNTZ.ED
  49. Ciarán 
  50. Mark Rowden
  51. Rose Miho
  52. Kiêu Anh Nguyên
  53. Bert Spinks
  54. Lauren Evans
  55. Sebastian Callum
  56. Anna Coppens
  57. Lorrie Anderson
  58. Catherine Maticka
  59. Sophia Crossing
  60. Britt Vonhoff
  61. Luka Smook
  62. Amy Davidson
  63. Jamie Riddell
  64. Rhys L’Hermite
  65. Rebecca Jacobson
  66. Emily Sherwell
  67. Andrew Potter

Avina Tarom

A Hot Girl Summer

tucked in green hills i glide through glass waters

as the jasmine breeze lulls the fast waters

Glitching – “why should I leave,” asked my mother,

“when I bleed the same past as my mother.”

a swirling red in hand the sun kisses

both cheeks before repassing the waters

Pixelated tears escape her – distant,

i cling to the brick masked as my mother.

my confessions of an old jukebox tune

chucked into the night, surpasses waters

(beat) Hurling from a wish into a prayer

as shooting stars blast over my mother.

       the song of cicadas scorn past waters

      as a rattling tin box outcasts my mother


























Note:

While this poem presents as an imitation of a Shakespearean sonnet, it is interweaving two ghazal poems which merge in the final couplet. Both the Shakespearean sonnet and the ghazal explore themes of love, mortality, and longing. The two forms differ in their origins with the sonnet being attributed to William Shakespeare and the latter flourishing in Persian literature and culture through poets such as Saadi, Rumi and Hafez.


A Hot Girl Summer
 By Avina Tarom Avina Tarom (she/her) is a first-generation Australian based in Boorloo (Perth) living on unceded Whadjuk Noongar land. While travelling Europe and enjoying the luxury of flitting between various countries, her mother was simultaneously fleeing a war. Her reflections from this period of conflicting truths have found their way to you. 
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