The lagoon is full of machines: small ones in the reeds
tocks and bocks, little clocks; a larger one maybe a fox (!) Continue reading
humour
The Christmas Comet (46P/Wirtanen): missed it
Street lights back-scatter
particulates from the Stack,
a trough from the tropics,
neighbours’ all-hours WrestleMania,
sleepless in this funk.
CN2 and diatomic carbon green on cloud tops.
In the spirit, a Christmas beetle
free-falls Martian-rover style,
impacts the dusty plains of my head.
Image: Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle, c. 1493. via Wikimedia Commons. A seasonal quadrille ( 44 word verse) marking the arrival and departure (unobserved by your poet) of the “Christmas” comet.
For those of you who’ve never encountered them, Wikipedia says…
Christmas beetle is a name commonly applied to the Australian and South African beetle genus Anoplognathus. They are known as Christmas beetles because they are abundant in both urban and rural areas close to Christmas… large…noisy and clumsy fliers, similar to the cockchafers of Europe…
And continuing the December playlist here’s the wonderful Django Reinhardt and Stephan Grappelli with Sultan of Swing.
The New Continent
What country, friends, is this?
Twelfth Night, Act 1, sc 2
another tourist-priced town,
shacks upscaled in treated pine and Colorbond® Continue reading
Once upon…
Once upon and
once again – Continue reading
The unrequited duet of the Pacific Koel
he calls
all night
in tones
that rise
that fall: Continue reading
A red-whiskered bulbul and Eliot’s objective correlative
head back calling
in the bright evening
in the neighbour’s olive tree —
‘wee-whit-h-h-h-h-who’ , ‘wee-wee-h-h-h-h-twuk’. Continue reading
Nonet – 2nd rain (inundation)
it’s
just like
you, always
way overboard. Continue reading
