
Art: "Birth of a Soul Landscape" by Tabin Llewellyn Brooks
Poetry: "thirst" by Grant Moser
mistletoe & saltwater
mimic a want
make me bend like a sunower
in tussled undergrowth
in the endings of skin
i want to be striated like
vertical maps like klimt like
subway skeletons like circuitry
gone feral
stretch me across the dale
cover me in wheat grass &
hedge trimmings i am no
harvest i am not viable
let honey seep into me first
to make a reservoir that will
keep fast the rainfall
for the desert ahead.
Published March 22nd 2025

Grant plays with words in central NJ.
Tabin is an artist, musician and writer hailing from Wiradyuri Country, Wagga Wagga in Australia. Tabin’s work is informed by their former career as a lecturer in the Arts and Sciences at Charles Sturt University. Much of their artistic work investigates humanity’s place in the wider landscape of country, life and divinity, with the series “Birth of a Soul” addressing ideas of creation, rebirth and growth.