Volume 4 (2007) Tide Fourth Edition

Editors' note
'Time and tide waits for no man [sic]'
14th century proverb

Steady as the stars, Tide returns for 2007. Welcome to the fourth edition. The stories in this issue are both painful and beautiful. The poetry will glass you and the prose will lick your wounds. This issue is that note you wrote to an ex-lover or that mix tape your best friend gave you. They are the dirty secrets and bright dreams of the writers and artists from the University of Wollongong and greater Illawarra. The Tide literary journal showcases the works of talented emerging poets, prose writers, playwrights and visual artists. It is entirely produced by third-year editing students at the University of Wollongong. It aims to support the local literary arts and reinstate its importance in the community by providing a platform for publication without censorship. Tide is the summation of effort and compromise shared by our editors, fundraisers, designers, print officers, teachers, businesses, community members, artists and writers who have worked so hard to make this publication possible. To the students Tide is teamwork, stress and sleepless nights-but more importantly it is a source of great pride and a bastion of confidence that together anything can be achieved.

Contents
Bridget Lutherborrow - The ocean knows this - 1
Paloma Duran - Bridging the gap - 3
Daniel East - The lover's promise - 7
Janine Hauber - Sagittarius - 9
Carla Velasquez - 12 o'clock sea - 11
Camilla Casson - Tonight - 14
Camilla Casson - At the grey hour - 14
Damien Dwyer - Kung fu, lies and videotape - 16
Lachlan Williams - For d.a. levy, a third-class outlaw who died a first-class death - 22
Stephanie Baker - Untitled - 23
Bede Payne - Shower - 26
Bede Payne - Self portrait #4 - 26
Michelle Peterie - The mulberry tree - 28
Madeleine Wilson - Seasons - 30
Medeleine Wilson - A maker of clocks - 30
Lauren Andrew - East of Westerbine - 32
Arcadia Lyons - Welcome to the palace of condiments - 36
Luke Johnson - This farmer - 37
Alida Fellows - Covered - 38
Alise Blayney - I never bowed down to be a haiku in the sham - 40
Samira Lloyd - Opium - 41
Chris Jaeger - Absolution - 44
Chris Jaeger - Permission to speak from a nervous dispositon - 44
Darcy Haylen - iGod - 46
Adam Norris - Auschwitz prelude in D minor - 49
Joanna Feely - The woodrose cottage - 51
Patrick Lenton - Fuck Stalin - 54
Patrick Lenton - Memory - 54
Freya Nicol - Starting over - 56
Nita Green - I could play you like a cello and twice as long - 59
C. Bramwell Pettett - Strangled by marriage - 60
Susan McCreery - Waiting for the southerly - 64
Jenifer Law - Dawn - 65
Emma Farmer - The fag man - 68
Ben Hurley - Toxic shock - 70
Ben Hurley - Sex machine - 70
Donna Kilby - A good record - 72
Sally Evans - Degustation - 74