Poem Category: Australian

ice-cube jugs
sweating our night out
in the patio heat

her fifteenth
I loosen the time home
on our daughter

autumn turned
the Maples got naked
before I knew it

guessing the size
of a shooting star…
our dog slips his leash

roof completely winter
the patches of moulds
unwashed by the rain

school vacation
they re-fill their dives
into the river

leaves in the wind
the thousand chases
around our school yard

Frangipani night
a butterfly finds the scent
to my candle

the heat of the night
feeling at these beach waves
just to lose them

the moth’s
whole silent purpose
eggs to the forest