Poem Category: Australian

late midday
overcoming a fog
the sunflowers shine

Aquarius stars
out of endless space…
no comfort to my birthday

their tweets–
through the pack of sparrows
the bird-bath… fights

alone and along…
a beach ball
heading the wind

the ice drips and drips–
through dawn the singers
out of their plumes

cracking the pond ice
a stallion alone
breathes the frost

a rowing boat
caught in the reeds
a kookaburra– laughs

the farm brook pushing
its sticks and stones–
first March showers

refilling the radiator
kangaroos hop past–
one stares… as if such a thing!

the old man among the tides
takes off as a pelican–
as light as air