Philomena van Rijswijk[philomena]

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Red Blanket, Green Cushions :
Poetry 2010-10-29 (1450 hits)

Silent Profile On :
Poetry 2010-10-09 (7447 hits)

Tamales :
Poetry 2010-10-09 (2924 hits)

Too Late :
Poetry 2010-10-09 (1355 hits)

Bodywork :
Poetry 2010-10-09 (1283 hits)

You Might Call It Home :
Poetry 2010-09-26 (1465 hits)

Strangled Collision :
Poetry 2010-09-25 (1477 hits)

The Cull :
Poetry 2010-09-18 (1706 hits)

Where Will the Music Be? :
Poetry 2010-09-18 (1418 hits)

My Longing is a Camp Dog :
Poetry 2010-09-18 (1272 hits)

Scarecrow :
Poetry 2010-08-31 (3377 hits)

You Were Not Brave :
Poetry 2010-08-31 (1318 hits)

X for Extranjero : For GA
Poetry 2010-08-31 (3455 hits)

Tinnitus :
Poetry 2010-08-31 (1267 hits)

The Upside-Down Sweetness Inside :
Poetry 2010-08-29 (1331 hits)

From Here to Eternity :
Poetry 2010-08-29 (1358 hits)

Infatuation :
Poetry 2010-08-24 (1267 hits)

Tonight the Moon :
Poetry 2010-08-24 (3262 hits)

My Besottedness :
Poetry 2010-08-24 (1762 hits)

Tocar : (Verb, infinitive: to touch, to play...)
Poetry 2010-08-21 (1173 hits)

The Drug : (for GA)
Poetry 2010-08-18 (1255 hits)

Crazy-angel-man : (for GA)
Poetry 2010-08-16 (1307 hits)

Pain Perdu :
Poetry 2010-08-15 (1373 hits)

How I Wanted To Be Touched :
Poetry 2010-08-15 (1261 hits)

The Frogs Sang Me Back :
Poetry 2010-08-15 (1343 hits)

Poems Fall :
Poetry 2010-08-15 (1361 hits)

My Beautiful Whitewashed Skin :
Poetry 2010-08-14 (1350 hits)

Black Sapote :
Poetry 2010-08-14 (1292 hits)

Looking at Degas :
Poetry 2010-08-13 (1434 hits)

Those Waves Are All : (por JLSM)
Poetry 2010-08-12 (1352 hits)

¡así es la vida! :
Poetry 2010-08-10 (1812 hits)

Husband of the Air :
Poetry 2010-08-09 (1399 hits)

Tooth, Claw and Nail :
Poetry 2010-08-08 (1287 hits)

What Children Are They? :
Poetry 2010-08-08 (1233 hits)

Magnolia Grandiflora :
Poetry 2010-08-08 (1286 hits)

Cold Climate Martyrdom :
Poetry 2010-08-08 (1325 hits)

This No-day Will Be My Sunday :
Poetry 2010-08-07 (1354 hits)

The Romance of a Horse-thief :
Poetry 2010-08-05 (1212 hits)

Tumbleweed Lullaby :
Poetry 2010-08-05 (2394 hits)

The Mechanics of Desire :
Poetry 2010-08-05 (2408 hits)

Tarpaper Air :
Poetry 2010-08-01 (1202 hits)

Too Yellow to Undo :
Poetry 2010-07-29 (1351 hits)

Sweet Star of the Sea :
Poetry 2010-07-27 (1301 hits)

Siberian Sleep Berries :
Poetry 2010-07-27 (1228 hits)

Strange Birds :
Poetry 2010-07-27 (1491 hits)

A Brave and Loveable Miracle :
Poetry 2010-07-25 (2575 hits)

Mother, Pat Me Awake :
Poetry 2010-07-25 (1144 hits)

Playing With Fire :
Poetry 2010-07-24 (1038 hits)

The Rabid Animal That Is The Night :
Poetry 2010-07-22 (2343 hits)

India Rubber Man :
Poetry 2010-07-15 (2630 hits)

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OffTOPIC ...unexpected seasons in another sweeter place...

OffTOPIC If you have ever waited for a train....

OffTOPIC ...thinking a lot about someone who wasn't there....

OffTOPIC I emailed this poem....

OffTOPIC ...probably the first erotic poem I ever wrote...

OffTOPIC Inspired by Marx or "Backyard Bee-keeping" ?

OffTOPIC ..the work of sun and salt and the passage of time...

OffTOPIC From "Trail of Bones and Godstones"

Thanks, Ada...

Thanks, Motoc...

Thankyou Anca and Corina...

Thankyou, my dear readers....Thankyou so much....

There's also some physics, botany, geography.......

Thanks for your input!

Thanks for your interest...I'm finding it difficult to work out how to make a c

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Biography Philomena van Rijswijk

Philomena van Rijswijk is a poet, novelist and story-writer living in Tasmania. Her most recent novel, "The World as a Clockface", was published by Penguin. Her poems and short stories have been published in collections and literary journals in Australia, Ireland and India. Her work was included in "Best Australian Stories 2002" (Black Inc) and "Best Australian Poetry 2005" (UQP). Some of her stories have been translated into Hindi by Dr Aruna Sitesh and Dr Sitesh Aloke. One of the translated stories, "Shalimar Ke Bagh", was recently published in Sakshaktar (Sahity Academy).