Uriel Touches Down After Burning Eden Sulphur ignited in the colour of wingswe fell from your biddingto our own choice in flight, no longer by an almighty privilege constrainedall the way to earth tumbling in lossalight for your honour an augury of archangels, to score their treachery in smouldering lettersindelible in the broadcast of feathersthe … Continue reading Uriel Touches Down After Burning Eden

Blackberry Sonnet/ The hay cutter speaks of his love Lady, I came for your love – not to haggle.I am no wisened mariner of orbs familiar knowledge,But a castaway escaping the casket’s clamour -Our years wait in your mantled hourglass beyond that door,My journey is measured in the distance to the bed head. Strand me … Continue reading

After the paddock was cut, white slopes more enticing than snow were irresistible. Rolling laughter found the space of words, even the dog smiled as she chased us down, so proud to be on her feet above the mantle of our churning. These were the days before climate change, rain followed hay making, farmers cursed … Continue reading Make Hay While You Can

Rumination on the death of a bee You were not there yesterdaylost from the anthem of hivefoetal position proboscis to stingtheir song of home still presentas the flutter of life spiralledresting on the ring of knotted huon pinethe whispers of honeycomb melodytwo beats within flap and fallwhat spectrum tempted you hereto lie now brittle wings … Continue reading Rumination on the death of a bee

One eight six She likes the sandwiches cut in triangles,vegemite and butter and I’m lithe with a knifean even spread sculpting the edges.Though it goes against her pride in doing so,I help with the shoelaces that slip undoneour kitten fighting every finger. It’s a special ordinance rope I carefully plait,we have to be certain that … Continue reading One Eight Six

Shifting times Sleep departs more often nowseeking a more comfortable companionI find my breathinghas become a difficult conversation the doves are too low in the birchesnot safe from south or eastwhere they huddle new eggsan arm’s length from my waking this is the age of tucked in pantscoffee many hours before dawna listening for predatorsthe … Continue reading Shifting Times

A Levee to Absence the cards are brief this yearin shallow condolencea levee to absence,broken the scattered sorrowleft for salvagehow they talk of passing yet visit as though gentle asthe first faint callthe quiet summons to duty, steadfast the whether of breaksthe happiest dispersed days drag through cementmercury for the veins of uscaught in winter, … Continue reading A new poem at BLUEPEPPER

A Farewell by Sea from hand to hand the burnished soil passescupped by palms conveyed in fistto finally settle where dry throats breatheand cake the slow bake of hearts hereheld fast before the afternoon’s conviction we back into the wind to give you journeythe leather shoulder pieces clapagainst head and neck and skybelow us the … Continue reading A Farewell by Sea

It began unexpectedly in an old-fashioned way of coffee and wine. A mug left on a fence post was drained, and a glass of chardonnay went down in one slurp. Jon collected pieces of heavy dairy rubber and made a two-sided flip door into the house for her. Else would drop on to the old … Continue reading COP OUT 26 and the Trespass and Redemption of Jon Wilt Andersson

Did you drink in afterburnthat chalice searing out the onlookersloaded now in the hope of temperatureblast off unreached by normal livesas you leave this burdened atmospherefor even more high flying strataaway from this azure hopebelow your indulgencesstrung like gluten over working livesslowly moving in the clay domesticeach mass now not distinctor visible through corporeal guessworkreach … Continue reading Last jaunt millionaire leaving, turn off the lights