IN MY PLACE by COLDPLAY Poem by Brian A Salmons
Northbound on the turnpike/across vague acres/at evening's beginning.
EVERYTHING I OWN by BREAD. Story by Alison Stuart
The centre of our social universe was Dingley. Two of the more socially sophisticated girls had cool parents who let them throw parties and for this particular party I dressed carefully.
ARCHANGEL by BURIAL. Story by PJ Grollet
“It’s love sickness, sir.” I wanted to respond. “A bad case.”
ASHTRAY WASP by BURIAL. Poem by PJ Grollet
Ethan told me about/ the time he took Laura on vacation/to Miami after we first broke up
SIMPLY THE BEST by NOAH REID. Poem by Michael Leach.
Soon each groom/ walks down a natural aisle/ with his sister & his canine/ to sounds of sincerest acoustic music.
PEOPLE LIVE HERE by RISE AGAINST Poem by Murray Taylor
...We weren’t ones for cliché/Unless performed ironically./Weeks drift by,/The comfort of familiar phrases,/Of gestures and faces...
LIGHTS by INTERPOL. Poem by Michael Leach
well-stocked op shop—/she sifts thru clothes racks/to find/an alternative/while I scan CD racks
SAN FRANCISCO DAYS by CHRIS ISAAK. Story by Virginia Muzik
Later, it’s six of us at a workmate’s one-room apartment, watching videos, drinking, talking. He and I sit on the bed, a purring cat between us. Kitty’s tail flicks against my thighs as he strokes one end, I stroke the other, our hands sometimes touching: poor kitty a conduit for the swollen energy between us.
ELVA by UNWRITTEN LAW. Story by NT McQueen
It’s a rhythm one could argue is difficult to not slow dance to and, in the sun and in love, I lifted her hand into mine and we danced together.
OCEANS AWAY by ROGER DALTREY. Story by Sue Dann.
Everyone has a playlist of pain, the songs that bring the sometimes forgotten, partly processed pieces of our past to come rushing to the surface, raw, to be felt again.