Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Publication news: Visiting the Zen Man Al - Pendulum Papers

 Hello everyone

Hope you are all very well.
Another publication to announce, this one in the Australian online lit mag Pendulum Papers.
Some of you will remember my friend Alan Ellis. We spread his ashes down at the Newport Fishing Village on Kororoit Creek in Melbourne last year.
Freely available again—
https://www.pendulumpapers.com/current-issue/visiting-the-zen-man-al/page-1/
All best everywhere
Pavle


Saturday, August 6, 2022

Publication news: Two poems, Another Chicago Magazine.

 Hello everyone

A couple of my short poems have just been published in the States, by Another Chicago Magazine.
Titled Harping On and Leaping Ahead, the first emerges from an Australian setting and second that kopi shop of mine in Geylang Serai.
Freely available—

All best to everyone
P


Thursday, July 14, 2022

Publication news: Wife No. 2 & Four Short Pieces - New World Writing

Hello everyone


I have another couple of pieces recently published in the States at New World Writing with Frederick Barthelme.

Five shorts in fact over two postings. Altogether they run to 2.7k words. A spot of cheekiness here and there, among the rest.


Freely available—





Best to all

Pavle

Sunday, July 3, 2022

Golden Shower



A happy mother in Central Java showers neighbours with coin.

On the occasion of a forty year old daughter’s belated marriage, you might think. 

In fact, after three years working in a foreign country (in the latest stint), there was joy and thanksgiving simply in the safe return.


Friday, June 17, 2022

Delight


Like chocolate or honey. Ambrosia or mead perchance. Straight off the supermarket shelf; any grocery or corner store now.
On the side of a bus stopped at the lights that blots out the building opposite, mountaineering gal roping her way up a steep incline.

MELT IN YOUR MOUTH 
PAIN RELIEF
Nurofen


Monday, June 13, 2022

Go Again


      We MUST 
       Be Born 
             Again

Young lad in his winter wraps with his girl crossing Lonsdale Street, even at that tender age understanding the need for a second chance.
(The old Serbs used to say, Da, but only with what I know now. To go through the whole thing blundering again, that was for the birds.)

Saturday, June 11, 2022

Flicking the Switch (foll. Emily D.)



Fast-forward Carlo now in anticipation beginning to lose shape and form. Behind the glasses the wavering, watery eyes. Slight back-tilting of head whenever the conversation turned earnest. The screening of hair blowing about like women found useful under observation. Daughter Soleil would carry his imprint the rest of her life. (Recall that voice of her father from Sydney down the line in Bab's back garden on the day of her funeral, before he had been met. We had all listened to the animal screeching wondering to ourselves.) Soleil the child of a one night stand in Sydney, as her mother regularly reminded, embarrassed by the connection. At some point in his youth Carlo's own mother had suddenly adopted four or five African orphans. (Never mention of his own father.) Streaks of cigarette & later even larger vape clouds engulfing the figure. One memorable winter afternoon Carlo and Robbie had marched together up the street in their coats, wielding their vapes like bushrangers their shooters. Experimental film-making followed art school (unseen to date); the conventional had never been any possibility. 

 


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