(on receiving my new glasses in the mail this last Thursday)
Gently placed by transient seraphim
the focus snaps and pops – the citrus grove, Continue reading
humour
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
Ali Whitelock on coal and other things…
Scottish-Australian poet Ali Whitelock reading her found poem – ‘this is coal don’t be afraid’. For more delights, check out her website. Ali’s poetry and my heart crumples like a coke can, 2018 and the lactic acid in the calves of your despair, 2020 are available from her publisher Wakefield Press
Sublunary by 5
In the room
the air has sides Continue reading
An Autumn Day – quadrille
after Rilke
After the spoiled summer
grey grey grey
grant us, Lord, this
one honeyed hour Continue reading
Jammin
(for Kathleen)
A new upwelling
overwhelms the raft of foam, darker red this time
this land is being made and re-made Continue reading
