(on receiving my new glasses in the mail this last Thursday)
Gently placed by transient seraphim
the focus snaps and pops – the citrus grove, Continue reading
Month: March 2020
Arcadia lakeside
these days
all mowing’s been suspended
but for a gesture Continue reading
Corolla transformer
(A quadrille for my old car)
The mirror sticker on the hatch
(with pillar rust and fender denter)
such a giveaway, screams back right off Continue reading
Ali Whitelock on coal and other things…
Scottish-Australian poet Ali Whitelock reading her found poem – ‘this is coal don’t be afraid’. For more delights, check out her website. Ali’s poetry and my heart crumples like a coke can, 2018 and the lactic acid in the calves of your despair, 2020 are available from her publisher Wakefield Press
Sublunary by 5
In the room
the air has sides Continue reading
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra – until May 10 2020
and regional galleries to follow* Continue reading
The afternoon storm
the sky’s a lambent column
all the way to space. Continue reading
An Autumn Day – quadrille
after Rilke
After the spoiled summer
grey grey grey
grant us, Lord, this
one honeyed hour Continue reading
The Jar on the Ground (driving south February 2020)
Mount Agony Road & Depot Beach
…the forest is cleaner, clearer, brighter
sulphur bare trunks (sprouting epiphytic green) Continue reading
Peter Frankis writes 