” when (?)
that next chapter of
Australia’s ancient story
began (the most modern) Continue reading
Month: April 2018
Hi-ace chijitsu
[there’s some strong language in this one]
You’ve probably seen them stealth-parked behind the amenities, maybe noticed their surreptitious routines: cold showers, pan scraping in water-saving sinks, stains on the bitumen. Inside it’s all incremental grime, having sloughed off the neurosis of clean… Continue reading
Cornucopia emergency
Sorry, there’s no more horns-a-plenty.
Every self-driving-avocado-blockchain-paeleo-nootropic
took a forest, a species, a river dam(n)ed. Continue reading
The Stack, Port Kembla 1965-2014
Still the glitter in gutters and rooftops, the petal that scalds
the cheek of the baby asleep in your arms, the shadow falls.
King parrot morning
when I turned back
the pool
was (almost) still Continue reading
Evening at South Beach
All day the southerly blew hard on the face of the the sea until, finally, around evening the wind died. On the north side of the peninsula the water was luminous – green and pink waves lined up to pearl on the cooling sand. Continue reading
(the change) in my hand
Image: Markus Spiske on Pexels, Audio: Soundbible.com. After unknown.
All my darlings…
as the lozenge zips across the screen
all our tech
comes with sounds
– a ting, a poink, Continue reading
Poets against Adani – hope for whole e-book
Originally posted on Leaf Litter: Thanks to Stop Adani campaign for great images from last night’s Melbourne launch of hope for whole: poets speak up to Adani, a few eBook you can read more about and download here. Nearly 20 poets read their poems from a book representing over 60 poets writing in protest at…
via Poets speak up to Adani launched last night in Melbourne — Plumwood Mountain
Peter Frankis writes 