Poem Category: Australian

Whiskey-raw midnight
only country songs
in the motel room.

Mosquito
bringing the dog’s blood
into my sleep.

Floods recede
cattle and calves
swelling the hills.

Mountain Pines
a Christmas-card snow
sprayed on the lake.

Midday heat
she brings us pomegranates
peeled and chilled.

Migrating geese
the sounds of the summer
carried on a breeze.

Still tacky
in green wet paint
the platform seats.

Winter
melting the brown carpet
with leaf mould.

In the nursing home
my mother’s face
as I remind her.

Caught in time
ladybirds photographed
on the yellow roses.