Poem Category: Australian

Rainbow lorikeets leave
the sugar-gum breeze…
a feather floats.

Below sound
but the bull-ants have found
the fallen fledgling.

Kindergarten gate
a heart cries
a heart dies.

Dim subway
young police
half bent over the bag-lady.

Fallen sugar-gum
almost forgotten by the earth
being bathed in moonshine.

first light
turning me the shadow
in the shade.

well water
imaging
the moon.

grandchild
with the wind-chimes smiling
ear to ear
.

Rain steams off…
the picket wood fence
becoming grey.

Orange dawn…
all the breakfast juice
I can swallow.