Poem Category: Australian

Leaving its shadow
the mouse taken
by a hawk.

Passing storm
at the dark edge
of the rainbow.

Pink bedroom
letting her kitten catch
the wall’s torchlight.

Still hovering
pinnacles of pampas grass
the dragonfly.

Rain whispers
the tin coloured lake
surrounds our canoe.

At drought’s end
the earth sweet smell
of the cattle’s breath.

The rusting freight yard
no trains come to …
boys with stones.

Rain forest
a bell-bird’s singing
comes out of the fog.

Bathroom tiles
too many ; no not too many
tiny footprints in the talc.

Autumn oak
the zigzag fluttering
of butterfly leaves.