Poem Category: Australian

and how I squint
at the sunrise
a grasshopper leaps so close

Sunday sermon
all the hens in white
obeying the rooster

Dawn rises
magpie songs unite
the Gum trees.

airing father’s suit
our shadows
return the touch

regatta
the river’s bend
zigzaged with sails

the river forks
from the left hand side
honking calls of the geese

the sparrow’s bird bath
the rest of our garden
in shadows

jogging home
in the fresh snow
my mind on the silence

gentle rains
hens pecking
over the free range earth

Deserted
finding tomorrow
the midnight tram’s headlight.