POETRY
      Rachael Petridis — 'kitchen windows'

kitchen windows hang in art galleries

outside becomes inside

a plum tree ushers pink blossom

a geranium flares cardinal against the glass

lace ferns feather the sill

oranges cast perfumed light

honeyeaters tap at moths

a mother works here

silent as the moving years

close to the faint breath

of mint and rosemary

fading in a light that filters

minutes into hours

her blade, grate-sharp against the board

a woman works here

sedulous as the spider spinning in her window

its fine silk shimmering through the pane