His chest is pale and thin Water circles his eyes This great life is closing in He said he shore and fenced, broke horses on ploughed ground, the folded earth nature’s pillow He knew the characters: the man from the Outback, the wily boundary rider He recalls it all How he got a quid for…
Month: February 2019
let me be cool
if i don’t hit the mark tonight, it’s finished. everything is. i hyperbolate but only a little bit. * omg, Yes! we have a future together. i can’t even make a doctor’s visit w/out fuss- a/miss. i curse at the level of my breath like they weren’t meant to hear it but they do….
A Freshet of Consciousness…
I haven’t left this dream in weeks, plucking words from threads of web and positioning them perfectly in nests of nowhere. There’s been this ebb; you’ve seen it, you felt it – I felt it when I first looked out and saw the wet snakeskin stretched, and the rivulets in gusts of sun shifting over…
Bellies Tight With Beer and Mutton
This high up the gorge, the sun is a stranger It sweeps over the water to bathe the plains, forgetting always the flinty broken faces planted by glaciers The cold river is squeezed tight by stone then sighs as it unfolds on hot stone to form lit wayward streams Beyond, men sleep on striped kapok…
Orca
Two blue and yellow Ferryboat, which take people to look at Whales, are coming in quickly; a third soon as their tours conclude, coinciding with a sea change as the wind gets up. Where I sit, with the black Work-safe Course pen, late afternoon, before cricket practise, I can see to the nearest city. I…
Memories Etched
I, too, have journeyed to green and envious, Unknown rocks. In cloaks, boots, and with daggers, So that funerals rung out the sound Of those defeated, rumored armies. Far off in dusk we must in a lonesome past… But where have you gone? Wherefore you go? Will you drop out? Or stick in thick…
last of the just
i don’t touch the flame much, open the gates, but when the mood takes me – i’m held, a relic of the war, scrawled-on for decades; a keepsake. withdraw: how many times have i crawled, stung from spite because of hurt? like a child. tonight i’m tempted by the flowers slaked…
Hightail Highway.
Fretting whales of sod dressed in sheets of honey, sly in green with white flags, trembling to be seen. Atop those swollen bites I spy tiny boats nodding on the eden sea’s swooning – streamers skirting the ring. Tracing its crown, I find freedom snaking out from beneath the city’s seed soiled harlot-hems. Turned, I am…
Deserted
Drowned for drought is desert’s dream. An inch more meant than it might seem. Your thirst. You’re parched. Your mercenary. Your worry. You’re darkness. Watch out for me.
i’m forever blowing bubbles
I shall attend, one day soon, in a suit, your funeral. I’m sick too, but it isn’t terminal, although it is actually. I cycle home from the shop & – Yo, Priscoe. Thought I was someone else, someone good. You made me forget myself. c/o 30 Aurora Terrace Hillcrest Hamilton…
Our Day
Peace in our land Volcanoes paused while we sort our shit Put down our weapons and take up pens to sign on double-sided velum their marks their false promises and our lands at stake our children sold into mediocrity slaves of the false empire that pretends to shrive but shrivels while we grow Our land…
emerald in black
At Jason’s funeral today seeing his mum who is in her eighties reminded me the Chinese saying ‘White hair seeing off black hair’ meaning the pain of a parent burying their child. Fare you well in that other world, brother Jason, the owls are weeping here. emerald in black for JJ ‘Emerald Black’ RIP you…