winter trees incline
a wall disappearing Continue reading
quadrille
on this earth
an ancient comb in the Met.
animals parade across an ivory page Continue reading
Slippage (Quadrille)
o my divided soul
astride the tides of time
Continue reading
fix
— tap (dripping)
— gutter (also) 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
Love song
…of the Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)
:
(a)typical silhouette V-shaped
flies on super-soft-silent
(into buildings, cars, transmission lines) Continue reading
Indeterminacy
It’s lightening in the east
but night’s still close. 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
An Autumn Day – quadrille
after Rilke
After the spoiled summer
grey grey grey
grant us, Lord, this
one honeyed hour Continue reading
Ars Poetica (on troubling times)
Whilst some
crave release, a break from the mad rush;
others embrace the cage they’ve made —
tranquility’s some hippy delusion Continue reading
Peter Frankis writes 