Poem Category: Australian

Salt and peppered
on the puddles
winter starlight.

Steel sink … cooling for us
a baked pie
beside its apple skins.

Banging winds—
my sleep
on the garden’s gate.

Chalk dust
the weight-lifter’s time
held in the air.

First light – –
the orange dawn
becoming blue.

lining
the waves
moonshine.

Easter hunt
the shape of the tot’s mouth
with chocolate.

radio jazz
the late-night swing
of the curtains.

relentless drought
dust devils twirl in
the pale of the moon.

the old house creaks
the fire-side spits
I turn another page.