Poem Category: Australian

slap of the sails
a whale’s eye
moves near.

scarecrow
against his will
the parrots in the corn.

wheat harvest
the quiet of the night
has a meaning

after the drought
that first mirror
myself in a puddle

hearing geese–
who honks loudest
leads home

child’s play
on our summer lawn
raising grasshoppers

as I leave them…
Gum trees gathering
to sunset

sunrise rains
out of the dark earth
untouched mushrooms

north summer winds
flooding my lawns
to save them

at start of day
over river smooth stones
a canoe… freed