Poem Category: Australian

Scent of a storm
the caw of a crow
leaving the tree.

Chiming faintly
of bamboo
the forest breeze.

Crickets
under the floor boards
forgetting sleep.

Family album
the child points
some forgotten ones out.

Starless river
seeking landfall
its eucalypt seeds.

Winds tap
the hen house waits
in the fox’s shadow. .

Sprouting
seeds from fruit bats
the cave’s mouth.

Separated …
a cave bat hangs itself
from the fig tree.

After the storm
tulips brimming
with moonshine.

Supported as softly
as the lake’s moon
our rubber canoe.