The Apology Day breakfast
my mother did not grow up
with her mother I did not
grow up with mine my son
Progressive culture since 1954
Crossing Galata, Istanbul
Flying fish
on Galata Bridge,
rods bowing and bobbing
Homeland insecurity
Today the cabinet is meeting to consider whether to create a new ‘super-department’ along the lines of the British Home Office or the US Department of Homeland Security. The new portfolio would merge the Immigration department – already boasting its own paramilitary in the form of the Australian Border Force – with the Australian Federal Police and spy agency ASIO. And Immigration Minister Peter Dutton is the man who will oversee the new department.
Faulkner
My mother is a fish. I have buried her three times already, but the water table is high and she floats to the surface. I cleaned her, using scissors to cut anteriorly through the bones attached to her pelvic fins
First home bile
i am providing islands
for a local land baron
kept warm at night