RAIDERS
ram raiders
501s
cat containment
its gentle invasion
(of the bed)
winter dew glistening in the grass
lanterns and leaves
deep winter
not all trees
are bare
hour before dusk
the tattooist
takes in his sign
as bright
as you can bear
red of winter leaves
“Your creativity will expand into as big a space as you give it.” – Patti Miller
rich with
leafflurry
our walk to the café & cake
the shirt, scarf & papier mȃché pig I bought at Vinnies
(a Rescue Pig
with a money box slot
the plug taken out
liberated from the world of corporate finance
it will spend the rest of its days in meditation
contemplating Derrida’s idea of the absent centre)
new shoes
lasagne dinner
hot chocolate supper
the chess challenge
poems in Vallum: Bridges
grief
It’ll all be beautiful – and it was!
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20,000-year-old shelter
the smoke paths
through the rocks
up mountain
the man in front
talking about taxes
the hand slides
down the stick
these short steps
tors
orchids and forbs –
we look out
granite boulders
some with rows of
teeth
the elusive lyrebird
we find
its sound
down mountain the scent of cassinias
downhill
passing the places
where we stopped
return
finding the map
lost on the way
WORTH
worth getting dizzy for
I stoop to sniff
the first narcissus
“Nobody on earth can prevent me from doing one particular thing: celebrating my lofty dreams.” Shri Chinmoy
today’s graffiti:
he didn’t do anything wrong
gym –
his muscles as he looks
in the mirror
I accuse her of fears
also mine
blaming her for a complicated world
instead of accepting it’s complicated
“captured, distorted, breath & rain” – Valerie Kirk
a bird flapping
through this urban
sky
maybe I’m some use
someone from Ukraine looks up
my bibliography on PTSD
sun
through the trees
through trees