Chef’s specials

This is an image of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula located about 8,000 light-years away, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). This Hubble image reveals the true shape of MyCn18 to be an hourglass with an intricate pattern of ‘etchings’ in its walls. This picture has been composed from three separate images taken in the light of ionized nitrogen (represented by red), hydrogen (green), and doubly-ionized oxygen (blue). The results are of great interest because they shed new light on the poorly understood ejection of stellar matter which accompanies the slow death of Sun-like stars. In previous ground-based images, MyCn18 appears to be a pair of large outer rings with a smaller central one, but the fine details cannot be seen.

Different everytime – black and silver fish torpedo thru transient glass
Eight views of a Lego(R) block.
Found poetry.
An ode (to emily – eyes bright, I only felt you there…
Hyperbole – comes the last allusion
on this particular rain – that so tentative ticked…

Three quadrilles (for the physicists)

Quantum Quadrille (i)

Quantum Quadrille (ii)

Chirp

Quantum quadrille (i)
Quantum quadrille (ii)
Chirp

Popular choices

Odysseus at the front bar – it should be about something / like love
feathers – the early rising / the water falling
saying goodbye at 5am – The land is a book waiting to be read
bird box – a bird exists inside this five-foot box
Pantoum – Poetry and Loss – In the everyday use of poetry, words carry ideas.
season’s anagram (autumn comes) – the wind moans in the cote
Plums – got your note juice stained

10 new poems – one a week starting late July 2017

memory turns an unmade bed

Sum(mer) sonnet

1. Sunday Afternoon Hill 60
2. Villanelle for the New Economy
3. A moment (of happiness) – a man and a woman finish sentences…
4. Missing you already (Pelecanus conspicillatus). – pelicans climbing thermals…
5. Sonnet …each moment turns an unmade bed.
6. Cry woman workshop – Here’s where you’ll stand…
7. Samsara on a windy day – wind blasted sedges won’t lie down.
8. (in)constant emoji – tears of joy face – infuses tone beautifully
9. Bucolic (MM Beach) – You know how when the drug (poetry) kicks…
10. Sum(mer) sonnet – If I were to engineer a blind here…

Fresh tastings…

	Landscape with the fall of Icarus…A farmer at a field – a horse, a plough the soil folding back in rich concentric lines like butter…
	signal/noise …this is signal…this is noise
	War (of) words …What is it good for? (Absolutely nothing)…
	Grandeur – …there it is as if it had just happened…

A quartet of quadrilles

• A panel discussion for the next 10 years
• that ending (2)
• that ending (1)
• (in)constant emoji

Six delicious sonnets.

• So electrical –  to leap or resile into something new.
• Sonnet (EM spectrum) – Our sensible hearts may be dumb…
• Sonnet …each moment turns an unmade bed.
• Sum(mer) sonnet – If I were to engineer a blind here…
• The reply to Sonnet 17 (by Pablo Neruda) – Our love’s not horticultural…
• Sonnet – Down in the channel…

à la carte… for your dining pleasure

The river – on the desk the hands are lit… The 0 – Are we still talking… Hat – The blender, the former, the calibrated shrinkage… Getting ready (Feb. 2017)...Consolidate all necessary paperwork… Wineglass Bay, E. Tas, (42.13°S 148.31°E) … is someone’s beach-idea perfected in whale-bone  The lounge (a memoir)  “It’s about embracing change,” says Penelope… The Short Tax Return for Individuals Start with your name: last first and then first last…cold front coming (Akaroa, New Zealand)  the twilight is as green as greenstone/ and there’s a cold front coming Standing on the Leith Docks  Now’s the day and now’s the hour…Early days  Found underground, a sea in parched WA…The Best Man. Marry me—let’s do it today… Untitled Two old palings lean together. One wets a rolly wrist all knobs and gristle… Sonnet Down in the channel the tide inhales… The road not taken Rather than the long road, the coast road, the narrow goat road…The Lovesong of the Flounder Let us go there, you and I…