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found poetry

Over the Moon

50 questions

Here’s Ava and Daniel reading 50 Google questions…


What’s tonight’s Moon?
What’s the reason for the Moon?

Continue reading →
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September 29, 2020October 2, 2020 peterfrankiswrites
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A lovers discourse

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after Barthes

My language trembles with desire.
It is as if I had words instead of fingers
(or fingers at the tips of my words). Continue reading →

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June 8, 2020June 9, 2020 peterfrankiswrites
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this…

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(11 to 17 April)

mars
in Aquarius —
is all chill poise Continue reading →

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April 12, 2020April 12, 2020 peterfrankiswrites
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Unseen elephants

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August 8, 2018August 9, 2018 peterfrankiswrites
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coming down

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after unknown

a change outside and suddenly
Continue reading →

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May 16, 2018May 16, 2018 peterfrankiswrites
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sensitive aquatic features

Kamay Botany Bay

” when (?)
that next chapter of
Australia’s ancient story
began (the most modern) Continue reading →

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April 29, 2018April 29, 2018 peterfrankiswrites
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on Frankenstein

(it’s two hundred years since publication of Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me? — Paradise Lost.” Continue reading →

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April 4, 2018April 4, 2018 peterfrankiswrites
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Over our heads (Tiangong 1)

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……………………….another
potent political symbol
shifts over our heads. Continue reading →

14 Comments
March 21, 2018April 25, 2018 peterfrankiswrites
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in the back that shines

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after unknown

…………………..and lays the change in my hand
counting the notes………………………..the coins Continue reading →

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March 19, 2018April 12, 2018 peterfrankiswrites
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Five Islands Plan of Management

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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 →

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January 5, 2018January 7, 2018 peterfrankiswrites
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