Poem Category: Australian

garden shed
showers darkening
the see-through rusts.

shaking his bread crusts
back and forth
the school-yard magpie.

Brushing the ferns
how the rainbows linger
over the waterfall.

Mountain view
one winding road
has left the valley.

Campfire
eye to eye
the tears of Gum leaf smoke.

Red flowering Gum
how the cicada has quietened
in the boy’s dirty hand.

Sunlit hills
the hawk and shadow
squeeze their prey together.

The same direction
eagle wings
in the sound of the wind.

Turning the corner
first warmth of spring
along the hallway.

The beach roasts
a blonde passing
drips sea on my skin.