Poem Category: Australian

Summer art class
our watercolours preserving
the rises of seeds.

Interstate bus
near term she is settled
into both back seats.

Going … coming … going
driftwood tossed
along the empty beach.

Auctioneer
so soon under his hammer
our family home.

Park sunshine
in the shrinking rain puddle
an empty swing.

Goldfish tank
their lips move in and out
of the ceiling.

Earth birth
the dewy lawn thrusts
her mushrooms out.

Naked flame-trees
the park’s ankle-deep leaves
rustle and gather.

Pond reeds
through the half slanting sun
a dragonfly race.

Railway cross-road
the quiet grazing
of the stockman’s cattle.