A simple song.
environment
The lovesong of the Australian Giant Cuttlefish (Sepia apama)
No home maker, nest gatherer, sand sitter
turbo-charged palindromic I eat as I hunt | hunt as I eat
now I am shell-grit, now kelp, now fiery sea-devil. Continue reading
Winter’s secret
walking the existential plain
head in bright bitter light
down the hollow rutted ground
The exile
Poetry and consumption
My poem – Bucolic, MM Beach has been published in the latest edition of Plumwood Mountain Journal.
…with 31 poems guest edited by Michael Farrell on the theme ‘Poetry and Consumption’, a bumper set of 20 book reviews, an essay on Amitav Ghosh by Jennifer Mackenzie and a wonderful photo essay on twilight by Jon Bennett, do yourself a favour and check it out here…
Image: c/- NASA on the Commons: Albert Siepert Points Out Highlights of Apollo 10 Liftoff to Belgium King and Queen, May 1969. And (for no particular reason) here’s Bertrand Belin, (so Frenchy, so chic), with un deluge.
Five Islands Plan of Management
(Hi WordPress readers,
this looks so much better on my site)
Flinders, Bass, Martin, Big and Rocky
adopted 26 hectares.
the Gerringong volcanics, the Dapto-saddleback
the bombo from the Broughton
the last glacial, as would the shallow shelf Continue reading
Eight views of a Lego® block
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Among everything moving —
the gulls and the kelp lifting and again
or slumping in the early heat
Lego® is still. Continue reading
Peter Frankis writes 