the Jiminy on my sill
mezzo to the choir Continue reading
poetry
Red Planet
(on first viewing my retinal scan at Simpsons Optometry, Civic, ACT)
from orbit the wide-field camera
images buttes and arroyos Continue reading
The Grand Spectacular
(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
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
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 