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out of nowhere
a swollen wash of silt and logs Continue reading
dverse
fix
— tap (dripping)
— gutter (also) Continue reading
understand
my pain moved in — new to the house but familiar — he strolled down the hall with the swagger of an agent on inspection day, tutting at the artworks, the bourgeois trappings — Continue reading
O beautiful day
Seriously, there’s still so much to do
winter snows, my joints ache,
eyes too (I’ve a list). Continue reading
Indeterminacy
It’s lightening in the east
but night’s still close. Continue reading
Xanadu
(a vision or fragments of a dream)
a colour of a lesser bloom
a falling back from that spectrum
which first lit the trees of Eden. Continue reading
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
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
Sublunary by 5
In the room
the air has sides Continue reading
Peter Frankis writes 