Poem Category: Australian

High school
the fullness of bodies
chewing gum.

Family beach
with the lime bikini blonde
someone’s pretty tot.

Spring thaw
a sparrow puffed in its bath
at the pond’s edge.

sunrise sea
breathing the air
full of gulls.

In the hills
the last train whistled
the town’s goodbye.

spring morning
our naked peach tree
pregnant with buds.

these dark woods
my torch light no longer
on father’s back.

in the well water
once in a blue moon
the moon.

the full moon
down a furtive place
to the well water.

delayed
in the curves of sand ripples
a red sunset.