Philomena van Rijswijk[philomena]

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Red Blanket, Green Cushions :
Poetry 2010-10-29 (2046 hits)

Silent Profile On :
Poetry 2010-10-09 (8895 hits)

Tamales :
Poetry 2010-10-09 (4001 hits)

Too Late :
Poetry 2010-10-09 (1990 hits)

Bodywork :
Poetry 2010-10-09 (1927 hits)

You Might Call It Home :
Poetry 2010-09-26 (2090 hits)

Strangled Collision :
Poetry 2010-09-25 (2134 hits)

The Cull :
Poetry 2010-09-18 (2366 hits)

Where Will the Music Be? :
Poetry 2010-09-18 (2036 hits)

My Longing is a Camp Dog :
Poetry 2010-09-18 (1893 hits)

Scarecrow :
Poetry 2010-08-31 (4518 hits)

You Were Not Brave :
Poetry 2010-08-31 (1985 hits)

X for Extranjero : For GA
Poetry 2010-08-31 (4700 hits)

Tinnitus :
Poetry 2010-08-31 (1920 hits)

The Upside-Down Sweetness Inside :
Poetry 2010-08-29 (1999 hits)

From Here to Eternity :
Poetry 2010-08-29 (1996 hits)

Infatuation :
Poetry 2010-08-24 (1897 hits)

Tonight the Moon :
Poetry 2010-08-24 (4334 hits)

My Besottedness :
Poetry 2010-08-24 (2430 hits)

Tocar : (Verb, infinitive: to touch, to play...)
Poetry 2010-08-21 (1835 hits)

The Drug : (for GA)
Poetry 2010-08-18 (1948 hits)

Crazy-angel-man : (for GA)
Poetry 2010-08-16 (1928 hits)

Pain Perdu :
Poetry 2010-08-15 (2029 hits)

How I Wanted To Be Touched :
Poetry 2010-08-15 (1915 hits)

The Frogs Sang Me Back :
Poetry 2010-08-15 (1971 hits)

Poems Fall :
Poetry 2010-08-15 (2040 hits)

My Beautiful Whitewashed Skin :
Poetry 2010-08-14 (1979 hits)

Black Sapote :
Poetry 2010-08-14 (1892 hits)

Looking at Degas :
Poetry 2010-08-13 (2086 hits)

Those Waves Are All : (por JLSM)
Poetry 2010-08-12 (1985 hits)

¡así es la vida! :
Poetry 2010-08-10 (2534 hits)

Husband of the Air :
Poetry 2010-08-09 (2027 hits)

Tooth, Claw and Nail :
Poetry 2010-08-08 (1940 hits)

What Children Are They? :
Poetry 2010-08-08 (1840 hits)

Magnolia Grandiflora :
Poetry 2010-08-08 (1902 hits)

Cold Climate Martyrdom :
Poetry 2010-08-08 (1918 hits)

This No-day Will Be My Sunday :
Poetry 2010-08-07 (1981 hits)

The Romance of a Horse-thief :
Poetry 2010-08-05 (1802 hits)

Tumbleweed Lullaby :
Poetry 2010-08-05 (3360 hits)

The Mechanics of Desire :
Poetry 2010-08-05 (3358 hits)

Tarpaper Air :
Poetry 2010-08-01 (1862 hits)

Too Yellow to Undo :
Poetry 2010-07-29 (1990 hits)

Sweet Star of the Sea :
Poetry 2010-07-27 (1914 hits)

Siberian Sleep Berries :
Poetry 2010-07-27 (1856 hits)

Strange Birds :
Poetry 2010-07-27 (2112 hits)

A Brave and Loveable Miracle :
Poetry 2010-07-25 (3453 hits)

Mother, Pat Me Awake :
Poetry 2010-07-25 (1746 hits)

Playing With Fire :
Poetry 2010-07-24 (1658 hits)

The Rabid Animal That Is The Night :
Poetry 2010-07-22 (3247 hits)

India Rubber Man :
Poetry 2010-07-15 (3553 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).