Philomena van Rijswijk[philomena]

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Red Blanket, Green Cushions :
Poetry 2010-10-29 (2228 -1 hits)

Silent Profile On :
Poetry 2010-10-09 (9200 -1 hits)

Tamales :
Poetry 2010-10-09 (4256 -1 hits)

Too Late :
Poetry 2010-10-09 (2176 -1 hits)

Bodywork :
Poetry 2010-10-09 (2101 -1 hits)

You Might Call It Home :
Poetry 2010-09-26 (2274 -1 hits)

Strangled Collision :
Poetry 2010-09-25 (2308 -1 hits)

The Cull :
Poetry 2010-09-18 (2563 -1 hits)

Where Will the Music Be? :
Poetry 2010-09-18 (2211 -1 hits)

My Longing is a Camp Dog :
Poetry 2010-09-18 (2090 -1 hits)

Scarecrow :
Poetry 2010-08-31 (4774 -1 hits)

You Were Not Brave :
Poetry 2010-08-31 (2168 -1 hits)

X for Extranjero : For GA
Poetry 2010-08-31 (4987 -1 hits)

Tinnitus :
Poetry 2010-08-31 (2113 -1 hits)

The Upside-Down Sweetness Inside :
Poetry 2010-08-29 (2197 -1 hits)

From Here to Eternity :
Poetry 2010-08-29 (2188 -1 hits)

Infatuation :
Poetry 2010-08-24 (2072 -1 hits)

Tonight the Moon :
Poetry 2010-08-24 (4617 -1 hits)

My Besottedness :
Poetry 2010-08-24 (2624 -1 hits)

Tocar : (Verb, infinitive: to touch, to play...)
Poetry 2010-08-21 (2014 -1 hits)

The Drug : (for GA)
Poetry 2010-08-18 (2136 -1 hits)

Crazy-angel-man : (for GA)
Poetry 2010-08-16 (2113 -1 hits)

Pain Perdu :
Poetry 2010-08-15 (2222 -1 hits)

How I Wanted To Be Touched :
Poetry 2010-08-15 (2110 -1 hits)

The Frogs Sang Me Back :
Poetry 2010-08-15 (2151 -1 hits)

Poems Fall :
Poetry 2010-08-15 (2233 -1 hits)

My Beautiful Whitewashed Skin :
Poetry 2010-08-14 (2143 -1 hits)

Black Sapote :
Poetry 2010-08-14 (2067 -1 hits)

Looking at Degas :
Poetry 2010-08-13 (2276 -1 hits)

Those Waves Are All : (por JLSM)
Poetry 2010-08-12 (2170 -1 hits)

¡así es la vida! :
Poetry 2010-08-10 (2690 -1 hits)

Husband of the Air :
Poetry 2010-08-09 (2200 -1 hits)

Tooth, Claw and Nail :
Poetry 2010-08-08 (2112 -1 hits)

What Children Are They? :
Poetry 2010-08-08 (2032 -1 hits)

Magnolia Grandiflora :
Poetry 2010-08-08 (2086 -1 hits)

Cold Climate Martyrdom :
Poetry 2010-08-08 (2095 -1 hits)

This No-day Will Be My Sunday :
Poetry 2010-08-07 (2153 -1 hits)

The Romance of a Horse-thief :
Poetry 2010-08-05 (1999 -1 hits)

Tumbleweed Lullaby :
Poetry 2010-08-05 (3628 -1 hits)

The Mechanics of Desire :
Poetry 2010-08-05 (3609 -1 hits)

Tarpaper Air :
Poetry 2010-08-01 (2044 -1 hits)

Too Yellow to Undo :
Poetry 2010-07-29 (2180 -1 hits)

Sweet Star of the Sea :
Poetry 2010-07-27 (2095 -1 hits)

Siberian Sleep Berries :
Poetry 2010-07-27 (2035 -1 hits)

Strange Birds :
Poetry 2010-07-27 (2289 -1 hits)

A Brave and Loveable Miracle :
Poetry 2010-07-25 (3672 -1 hits)

Mother, Pat Me Awake :
Poetry 2010-07-25 (1922 -1 hits)

Playing With Fire :
Poetry 2010-07-24 (1831 -1 hits)

The Rabid Animal That Is The Night :
Poetry 2010-07-22 (3487 -1 hits)

India Rubber Man :
Poetry 2010-07-15 (3801 -1 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).