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Caledonia Australis The harbour morning's soft with clouds. The cold, alike long-legged flies, is striding over the surface...

Bone Scan in memory of Gwen Harwood, who encouraged the eleven-year-old me to write poetry In...

Totality Not having the faintest idea how my brain and body function standing in wonder at the wonderful ...

GREEN She sits before her sadness and his mother, praying they disappear, before he appears, It will take a miracle for him to fo...

LINGUISTICS CLASS 1. What must it sound like, The idiom of our tongue, If you have come from othe...

Anniversary Dinner with Borges So the poet pauses as he passes a few words of Borges to his beloved. ...

"The Job Parts 1 & 2"   "Did you bring them?" I gave a look without saying anything that let him know I found ...

I. Spiritual Geography People always say, I love the smell Of rain , but all I smell is dirt as if The sky is washing itse...

WINTER BLUES Snow wraps around our faces crawling on fields in nightswell mounds by a country-side poet carrying a pawn...

The sun is silly when I am silly The clouds are careful when I am careful The bird is brave when I am brave The ...

Waves of dreams and blackcurrant trees Sitting in my cave turning back and seeing my film I know There is a way between me and y...

I was saddened to read yesterday that one of the great Sydney institutions, the Sandringham Hotel in Newtown, has gone into receivership...

Breaking off a piece of the willow I say goodbye to my friend. He will take it and plant it. A tree will grow by the river And the...

Sol/iloq/uy after Williams S. O God of Battles, the raven is hoarse! Is this a dagger? Send the nurse ...

TO OUR SON -IN-LAW RETURNING FROM IRAQ: APRIL 2003 That you were a writer and not a soldier Made you no l...

pre-collapse confession you’re right I’m talking too fast a bouncy-ball red for her lipstick ...

KITCHEN LESSON Fishing in a knife drawer A finger slips. The thin line, invisible At first, broadens ...