THE MOZZIE
Volume 31 Issue 03, October 2023
The Mozzie is a small press poetry magazine published in Queensland that publishes the work of established and emerging poets. Ron Heard is the very dedicated editor. Volume 31 ssue includes 2 poems of mine. I submitted to the magazine during the year and love it when a poem of mine gets chosen to be published.
MozzieOctober 2023, published two of my poems,
counting summers
morning litany after the referendum
It was very rewarding to be in the journal with a writer friend and supporter Pip Griffin.
Pip’s latest book Opus: A life in poetry is promoted and a poem from her new book is published. 
Congratulations Pip Griffin.
Thank you to Ron Heard for his dedication to poets and our poetry.
morning litany after the referendum
air tastes brittle hits hard
there has been no rain for weeks
leaves dusty and bluish
curl in foetal positions
caught
in a Philip Glass time warp
the antiphon of morning birds
is devoured by a leaf mulcher
roaring hungrily nearby
the tree out the back sacrificed
because someone said it was dead
lies weeping cut up in small offerings
birds that nested in its knotted hollows
have fled
and I have to turn away from
being a witness
away from tv images
Gaza Ukraine Mali Israel
garish glint of metal and concrete mock
new home units towering out of place
the riff of rivulets in Coups Creek muted
in welled-up rock crevices
later leaning into the warm dimpled trunk
of a doyenne of the bush I watch a flock
of spotted pardalotes their tiny pieces of sun
wild and cheerful skittle the day