Poem Category: Australian

Gold chalice
over the Host
the priest’s winy breath.

Eagle’s screech
an orange peel squeezed
into your face.

Becoming full
the summer weighs
the tree with mangoes.

A crescent moon
the solitary stares
between the cattle.

abattoir
the twilight of stars
in silence.

delayed
in the curves of sand ripples
a red sunset.

the full moon
down a furtive place
to the well water.

in the well water
once in a blue moon
the moon.

these dark woods
my torch light no longer
on father’s back.

spring morning
our naked peach tree
pregnant with buds.