Poem Category: Australian

house auction
a few magpie songs
conclude the sale

train whistles closer
our embraces held in,
the platform’s chipped paints

sudden spring showers
Laurel’s laugh ahead
all the run back home

in blue school mittens
she fumbles the key
to unlock her bike

with all the unrest
of leaves
butterflies

Latin rhythms
freeing my feet…
the dance class

naked Oak
one leaf unbothered
before spring

garden cactus
popping her balloon
the birthday one

beach party
Laurel
across the camp fire

needing teeth
with the cracked shells
she returns to a tree