toppling tree 

upon tree upon tree

  wind upon messmate

 

someone?

leaves landing

on the driveway

 

collecting wood-

   pink ranges turn

     purple behind me

 

still trees

before stars

possums growl out…

 

1.07.09

light slowly

crosses the stream

the wallaby leaves

 

wind sends

the forest flailing

ocean sound

 

13.07.09

 

fire reveals

the old berry farm

corrugated forest

behind frogs

and forest whispers

traffic’s roar

bushwalk with her

        wanting to leap

            into ironbark fissures

27/3/2009

 

longing for sea

    walking through

         forest

 

in silence

and solitude on the hill

waiting…

 

black fields  splashed green  autumn rain

 

reading late

  chamomile warm

     on my fingers

 

cold peak

lonely and waiting

    .. somewhere

 

balanced on the arm

at nights end

empty tea cup

3/4/09

 

sun through stream

trout feed beneath

the bubble run

 

mercy by the wood pile

rabbit with broken leg

with broken neck

 

6/4/09

 

farting runs

into diohrea

…smoothly

 

briefly

  through heavy cloud

    into my heart

 

11/4/09

 

peak through clouds:

her knee above

bubbles

 

forest reverie

into ironbark forrows

evening breeze murmurs

 

26/4/09

 

dew covered leaves

to wash my face

breakfast waits

 

28/4/09

 

forest at dawn -

   burying a shit

like a person

 

30/4/09

 

by the stream

wishing these stretches

were yoga

 

street light

the wombat not fitting

into the drain

from the end

of a bending limb -

the koala retreats

smell of ants -

crushed where the river

cuts bedrock

dune scrub -

always in the shape 

of onshore wind

clear water...

through the bedrock

  over the beer can

to smell

   then look

peppermint under foot

lonely 

over nighttime waves

warning no one

walking unaware...

hat full 

of daffodils 

midday heat

shade beneath the willow

i am killing

low above the yarra

flashing green

a mallard duck

dancing gently

onto the yellow yard

burning embers

barely above

burning mountains

orange moon

stream

over summer grass

the tiger snake

in and out

of shadow

   vanilla lilies

in his coat

rain from every puddle

we passed

summer silence..

      jesus in a manger

on the mantle

kangaroo

on the road

life still in her

mountain morning

    leaving the river

            as it was

summer breeze
presses and passes-
she wears only a dress

red glow left
in grey morn-
street light off

i enter and leave
the birds behind me-
bus at dawn

cold day
running and yelling
into the sea

fading light-
seed heads shiver
above still grass

honey-eaters-
pleasantly finding
a tree-full

sand castle-
the moment before
the avalanche

dust flows

floats in the stage light;

trumpet spit falls

line of white 

clouds from the sun

dissipate

piling      tumbling

around the house tonight

voice of crickets

seated

homeless under old trees

feeding ducks

planting finished

now i understand the joy

rain on the roof

waiting...

a still eucalypt moves

in the water

why so empty?
in the grass in the garden
insects bustle

off the road
into the river
someone pisses

leaves all aglow
dapple grass and thought
binded by wind

spring reading
with mosquitoes in the shade;
the dog rests

dog stares hopefully
unoticed at the door;
we talk till late