50 questions
Here’s Ava and Daniel reading 50 Google questions…
What’s tonight’s Moon?
What’s the reason for the Moon?
Over the Moon
poetry
Talking sheds
Talking Sheds and Other Corrugations a new book from Wollongong poet Jack Oates was launched virtually just this week.
Continue readingnot 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
The third day
not your touch (negative space)
to the light of September
A red whiskered bulbul (before/after)
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’.
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
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.’
The edge
As you get closer the trail declines from wheel ruts to track, path to pad paced between grasses, an alignment of sticks, leaves, animal ways then ends — you can’t see it yet.
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Peter Frankis writes 