Poem Category: Miscellaneous

Sea cave
felt in one touch
like an dark eel moving.

Removalist
all our years packed
in this single trip.

Midnight turns
a cricket in the walls
of wake and sleep.

School holidays
spitting on her daughter
to wipe the rouge away.

Dawn opens
the first magpie for a moment
clearing its throat.

Pretty tot
with nothing but chocolate
to shape her mouth.

Wind in my hair
sunset clings
to the sea-eagle’s back.

Tiny scolding tot
her old dog’s laziness
in the midday shade.

Sail-board race
a flash of dragonflies
in the river’s reeds.

In frost
the hay-warm scarecrow
in his new red coat.