Only the Waves Kristen Somogyi and fruit dishes with children

and fruit dishes with children

assumptions all too often proven hollow or insubstantial in times of crisis

As the dust begins to settle

and the related ‘aquatic ape' theory

and the availability of fruit

Only the Waves Kristen Somogyi and fruit dishes with childrenTrue to the grandmasters of times now past (like Issa) rather than projecting herself onto her subjects Judith E. P. Johnson allows her subjects to breathe new life through her haiku and senryu. Precious cowrie shells culled from sparse windswept Tasmanian seascapes across a lifetime coolly reflected upon her poems in a slow burn of sly wistfulness and whimsicality help us rediscover what will be lost within what has always perhaps inescapably been