Poem Category: Australian

reflections
the river Gum
falls

alone I saw it…
the Gum in the wind, fall,
to the sun on the river

surrounding
the eucalypti
the season of rings

she looks back—
the child like I faced
a kindergarten gate

sound travels
for no special purpose
a magpie wakes me

blanket snow
a bellbird
tinkles the air

freezing ears–
over blankets of snow
a bellbird…tinkles

…seasons…
how the life in the Gums
turn into rings

the summer’s third moon
a whale feeding bub
where the river enters the sea

fire station
the national flag flaps
–they are all out