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Month: September 2020

Morning at Cumae

after a dream like that...
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September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 peterfrankiswrites
dverseironypoeticspoetryprophecyvatic voice

Over the Moon

50 questions

Here’s Ava and Daniel reading 50 Google questions…


What’s tonight’s Moon?
What’s the reason for the Moon?

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September 29, 2020October 2, 2020 peterfrankiswrites
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Talking sheds

Talking Sheds and Other Corrugations a new book from Wollongong poet Jack Oates was launched virtually just this week.

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September 27, 2020 peterfrankiswrites
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not my place

“It was a pretty brutal place, but there was no slavery in Australia.“

The Hon. Scott Morrison, MP,
Prime Minister of Australia
on Radio 2GB, 8 June 2020

it’s not my place
there are others here 
with grounds

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September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 peterfrankiswrites
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The third day

low on the shore — crab cam
— rocks distinct in the early bright

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September 20, 2020September 22, 2020 peterfrankiswrites
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not your touch (negative space)

not your touch but your absence
not your kiss but after
my cheek cooling

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September 17, 2020September 21, 2020 peterfrankiswrites
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to the light of September

It seems as though you are still summer
standing there – holding our towels

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September 15, 2020September 21, 2020 peterfrankiswrites
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A red whiskered bulbul (before/after)

A red whiskered bulbul (Pycnonotus Jocosus) c/- Pikist.

A red-whiskered bulbul (before)
head back calling 
in the evening 
in the neighbour’s olive tree —
‘wee-whit-h-h-h-h-who’ , ‘wee-wee-h-h-h-h-twuk’.

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September 9, 2020September 10, 2020 peterfrankiswrites
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the tender trap

hang ears in chandeliers 
tie cams to hummingbird wings
bribe the barista & delivery guy
badger dormouse & eavesdrop on
spidey’s sticky lines

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September 7, 2020 peterfrankiswrites
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A house afire

‘It started the day we moved in,’ the woman says.

‘We wake at 3 or 4 in the morning to explosions and banging,’ the man says. ‘The bedroom is thick with smoke and flames are curling up the doorframe.’ 

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September 3, 2020September 5, 2020 peterfrankiswrites
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