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15 years of publication (180 months, 180 issues, 200 poets) Tasmanian Europa Poets Gazette No 180, April 2019 Virgins, Joe Lake, acrylic on canvas, 30/40 Tick-Tock Christmas has come And quietly gone The bon-bons have snap-crackled And life has tick-tocked along.                This bustling time                Of gift giving                And crib-adoring                Invokes both sadness                And gladness We are now pleasantly Relieved and away - From that special day For which we anxiously prepared Then harmoniously shared With our fellow travellers.                On the twelfth month,                Return it will,                When, we shall all, once again,                inevitably, relive it still.             Kathleen O’Donnell Outside Of Time I am lost Light, sound, movement wash over me I walk in a straight line But there is no direction I long to stand outside of ti

Tasmanian Europa Poets Gazette No 179, March 2019 The Poets Joe Lake's Baby Talks Catherine Burton  My Projection Am I real What is real Flesh and blood A projection, avatar Game or ghost I can taste the rain upon my tongue Feel your breath against my cheek See your shadow on the grass Smell the earth between my fingers Hear the beating of my heart I sigh An exhalation A whisper of wind through leaves If there is no one To hear me, see me, feel me Am I absolute I have someone to love and someone loves me A reflection in your eyes My reality   Catherine Burton Cathy Weaver Joe Lake's, She Won't Listen Gender According to tradition, men are tough, women are tender but in contemporary Australian society, things are not so straightforward when it comes to gender. Women are now free to ta