On top of the mountain, above the clouds, we lay back on the picnic benches.
Category: Poetry
Hurricane
Your sleeping is fitful, little red gums / Inflamed with the pain you can’t say.
Bamboo
We reminded the house /
of the swamp, of hidden things, /
of war and jungle beasts
Late Night Tea
Lighting up the room,
Their face upon a screen
Arriving at night
The boreens tangle in themselves dividing up the land
the dance
we did the dance /
you know the one
The Song of Selection
we can still sway /
despite the crosses we’re born to bear
Sophrosyne
I saw a word and fell in love /
Thinking, that is me, I’ve found /
It, the thing to define me
Home Fires
anchoring her still to this world / her mind as broken as the daffodils
The Woods
I found, in the middle, an open grave. / Of course I climbed down