That pent up energy in me has no logic but itself, that part that understands has no intelligence but intuition. The glory, like lightning,

I first went through there in 1975… sitting in the back of my parents’ old, green ‘64 EH Holden. That tiny town was boarded up wit… staring harshly at any intruder,

The old one’s dying/the baby’s alr… There’s blood on the sheets from both/clean it up/move along It’s the same/this day/as all days Sloughing off the sheets/stumbling…

His eyes are light as lasers, betray the depths of the ocean, and are as gentle as silk. He holds himself humbly, firmly, his expression is a bridge…

In the dreams you have in your sof… under your downy doona, thinking you sleep the sleep of th… do you dream of the face of the Ch… hauled before temporal authorities

I drink water and believe in science. I am a twig with a swollen disfigurement.

At first, it came every minute or… a slow, heavy sound, that swelled then exploded, like the tolling of… but not a fairy bell, or the bell… a strange sound, as if the bell wa…

An old-fashioned television all black and grey on wooden legs in my parents’ dim lounge room

I dwell or rather exist at this bone-hard time of cold dark weather of cold dark change this time of closure

This place smells richly of the mu… of cars and trucks, and hot tarmac… of the rich tapestry of the gum tr… roses and carnations in the park j… Its ordinary nature is so heighten…

Having lain in paralysed potential… somnolent under Winter’s moon —the Silver Lady that rules that… sleeping away the long night, like… now that the Elders Past, and the…

All week it’s been cold, with the sky as bright as those electric blue eyes that blaze out of that face to which you are drawn irresistibly.

Somehow Troy became deluded into… that he was a hat, Gandalf’s hat to be precise. He bought wizardy high boots, which he insisted were possessed

You and I are a late written rock song. Free of all things, children mithering, grandchildren… mothers judging, fathers chastisin…

So easily forgotten: Sarajevo, South Africa, Vietnam and that which was once simply Korea. And so many more,