Everyday miracles

Green tree leaves clean and shining A diamond droplet suspended Blue sky within Upside down It splashes And the sky hits the ground My shoe walks over it Thinking That’s quite profound Photo from a drone shot out west of Eulo on a trip last year. The perspective from higher up never fails to lift […]

This Land

Land Isn’t dirt It is something higher It holds It grows It breathes It covers itself in tapestries of wildflowers And allows the breeze to carry the seeds It is free and travels in dust Falls in love And covers my jacket My hands Fills the lines beside my eyes One day it will find […]

The endless

Kookaburras laugh Into the darkening descent of day A moon waxing Her chest full of pressure And nowhere for it to go But into the sky And I take mine to the page To leverage the word And bend it into the shape of immense feeling But it’s a mugs game This poetry For every […]

Self Contact

That third last hour Between the world of night And the world of day I began writing poetry again I haven’t felt like sharing The things that bake between layers When I’m living You know Just walking through it But one day You look up And there is a thin crust Over the top of […]

Time Lapse

Horizon turning Apricot to blue I want to grasp This moment Before the sun While the moon is still bright Already the stars Have left the sky And the tall gum tree behind Is becoming more defined Leaf by leaf We cannot hold time For it is inexorably marching toward forever And the only way […]

Acquiescence

Firelight illuminates Shadows add depth We are the sum of both the seen And unseen Even to ourselves Self is blinded perhaps Most of all. What rises to the surface when heat is applied Reveals things more precious Than spent time Sitting in the warmth But without the heat I guess it’s a little obscure […]

Salutations

Full moon Obscured by wind blown clouds I stand watching What shakes trees Rattles the sheets of iron on the roof Scatters my yoga mat Off the deck Unfurled like a tongue Stopped mid sentence It hits a wall I stretch taller My feet planted on the floor The clouds part My heart yawns and […]