Philomena van Rijswijk[philomena]

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Red Blanket, Green Cushions :
Poetry 2010-10-29 (1537 hits)

Silent Profile On :
Poetry 2010-10-09 (7800 hits)

Tamales :
Poetry 2010-10-09 (3173 hits)

Too Late :
Poetry 2010-10-09 (1437 hits)

Bodywork :
Poetry 2010-10-09 (1383 hits)

You Might Call It Home :
Poetry 2010-09-26 (1557 hits)

Strangled Collision :
Poetry 2010-09-25 (1556 hits)

The Cull :
Poetry 2010-09-18 (1797 hits)

Where Will the Music Be? :
Poetry 2010-09-18 (1501 hits)

My Longing is a Camp Dog :
Poetry 2010-09-18 (1356 hits)

Scarecrow :
Poetry 2010-08-31 (3591 hits)

You Were Not Brave :
Poetry 2010-08-31 (1414 hits)

X for Extranjero : For GA
Poetry 2010-08-31 (3684 hits)

Tinnitus :
Poetry 2010-08-31 (1348 hits)

The Upside-Down Sweetness Inside :
Poetry 2010-08-29 (1416 hits)

From Here to Eternity :
Poetry 2010-08-29 (1444 hits)

Infatuation :
Poetry 2010-08-24 (1361 hits)

Tonight the Moon :
Poetry 2010-08-24 (3469 hits)

My Besottedness :
Poetry 2010-08-24 (1842 hits)

Tocar : (Verb, infinitive: to touch, to play...)
Poetry 2010-08-21 (1269 hits)

The Drug : (for GA)
Poetry 2010-08-18 (1347 hits)

Crazy-angel-man : (for GA)
Poetry 2010-08-16 (1398 hits)

Pain Perdu :
Poetry 2010-08-15 (1470 hits)

How I Wanted To Be Touched :
Poetry 2010-08-15 (1344 hits)

The Frogs Sang Me Back :
Poetry 2010-08-15 (1421 hits)

Poems Fall :
Poetry 2010-08-15 (1451 hits)

My Beautiful Whitewashed Skin :
Poetry 2010-08-14 (1427 hits)

Black Sapote :
Poetry 2010-08-14 (1376 hits)

Looking at Degas :
Poetry 2010-08-13 (1528 hits)

Those Waves Are All : (por JLSM)
Poetry 2010-08-12 (1432 hits)

¡así es la vida! :
Poetry 2010-08-10 (1960 hits)

Husband of the Air :
Poetry 2010-08-09 (1485 hits)

Tooth, Claw and Nail :
Poetry 2010-08-08 (1375 hits)

What Children Are They? :
Poetry 2010-08-08 (1312 hits)

Magnolia Grandiflora :
Poetry 2010-08-08 (1368 hits)

Cold Climate Martyrdom :
Poetry 2010-08-08 (1407 hits)

This No-day Will Be My Sunday :
Poetry 2010-08-07 (1442 hits)

The Romance of a Horse-thief :
Poetry 2010-08-05 (1287 hits)

Tumbleweed Lullaby :
Poetry 2010-08-05 (2574 hits)

The Mechanics of Desire :
Poetry 2010-08-05 (2570 hits)

Tarpaper Air :
Poetry 2010-08-01 (1284 hits)

Too Yellow to Undo :
Poetry 2010-07-29 (1429 hits)

Sweet Star of the Sea :
Poetry 2010-07-27 (1372 hits)

Siberian Sleep Berries :
Poetry 2010-07-27 (1299 hits)

Strange Birds :
Poetry 2010-07-27 (1563 hits)

A Brave and Loveable Miracle :
Poetry 2010-07-25 (2760 hits)

Mother, Pat Me Awake :
Poetry 2010-07-25 (1213 hits)

Playing With Fire :
Poetry 2010-07-24 (1120 hits)

The Rabid Animal That Is The Night :
Poetry 2010-07-22 (2501 hits)

India Rubber Man :
Poetry 2010-07-15 (2805 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).