Poem Category: Miscellaneous

Birthday cake
among the patio ferns
her greying friends.

Sail-board race
a flash of dragonflies
in the river’s reeds.

Tiny scolding tot
her old dog’s laziness
in the midday shade.

Wind in my hair
sunset clings
to the sea-eagle’s back.

Pretty tot
with nothing but chocolate
to shape her mouth.

Dawn opens
the first magpie for a moment
clearing its throat.

School holidays
spitting on her daughter
to wipe the rouge away.

Midnight turns
a cricket in the walls
of wake and sleep.

pottery kiln
the cracked vase
showing my mistake.

dairy drought
milkweed sap
suckling the wind.