Poem Category: Australian

auctioning
Father’s
shabby
house

River cruise
the freckles on Laurel’s throat
brushed by her green blouse.

The tide leaks
where the crunch of sand
fits our feet to the ankles.

Spring warms
I untie the bamboo string
around the wind-chimes.

around our rest stop
the mountain swept
by two eagles

Blazing sun
anticipated this
the cicadas’ wall of sound.

… web …
how the life in the moth
becomes a spider

being Carnation
the head drooped in the garden
rises to the rain

in words
the sunset and a haiku
on the same page

in a moonless breeze
dodging
the after-swoop of an owl