Poem Category: Australian

Telescope
out of infinity
the red plains of Mars.

beekeeper
how sealed the sun is
in his row of jars.

winter holidays
the warmth from grandma
closing her front door.

the tidal mud
as we seek
her gold earring.

family album
after lunch mother asks
for help in her garden.

dawn solitude
the bay’s lowest ebb
turning.

in winds to-be-rain
whittling a branch
on my back-yard steps.

losing a daughter
to fifteen
in her friends’ way.

Unexpected find these
love letters in a fire-place
behind this false wall.

Leafless vine
the spider thinks how to change
her web in the sun.