Live Encounters Poetry & Writing 16th Anniversary Volume Seven
November- December 2025
The page, poems by Vicky Tsaconas.
The page
Once again
after The Boat Which Carries Time by Chiharu Shiota, 2017
I collect
blood-red threads
interlace
ends dropped
a while ago
mesh a boat
for my soul
moments
days
slip
past
in this world
and in dream
Ηλιο Helios
© Vicky Tsaconas
Vicky Tsaconas is based in Naarm/Melbourne. She writes poetry, creative non-fiction and reviews. Her poetry and prose have been published in the anthologies Southern Sun, Aegean Light and Mothers from the Edge, in Stylus Lit, the Australian Multicultural Writing Project, Transnational Literature, Australian Poetry Journal, Azuria, Hobo Poetry Magazine, & (ampersand) and Unusual Work. Her essays and reviews have been published in Australia, Greece and online (including on garland and Senses of Cinema). In 1996, she won second prize in the Poetry Section of the Greek Australian Cultural League Literary Competition and in 2003, one of her poems was Highly Commended in the Daffodil Day Arts Awards. Vicky was one of the founding members of Διφωνιες (Difonies) Journal of Greek Australian Thought.