Archive | 2009

NIGHTFALL IN MEDLOW BATH

(1)My first Blue Mountains journeys were on Sydney’s country trains, With scenery improving, once I’d gone past Emu Plains. I did not know the passengers around me, but perhaps one Might care to play a card game, since we’d only come to Lapstone (2)I closed my vintage fiction novel fast. So I could then look, [...]

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My Oculist was a Carpenter

I’m now sworn against hypocrisy, which lets me poke and prod All the minor faults of Christians, while I miss the love of God. I defend my rights to swindle you, as long as I can pick One cathedral in a hundred, where the dead have caught the quick. So I shun the men, who [...]

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LONG JOURNEY

Professor Brint was 30, when he built his best invention: The Chrono-Car, and used it to explore the fourth dimension. He revved it up, and traveled back through 23 years’ history, And then the engine used up all supplies of his magistery. Now trapped back when his childhood self had only just turned seven, And [...]

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LADY FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE

Is she waiting in the snowfall of an unseen distant plateau, That still lives today on Christmas cards all packed up now? Is that so? Would the lamps that light the pathways put a glow upon her face? Are these images of fantasies all gone without a trace? Is she staring from the window of [...]

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HAVENFLIGHT

He stood on the edge of a suburb, where house windows faced an expanse Of bushes and forest and small hills; and readied himself, with a chance. He stood on the edge of a sunset, with houses not far from his rocks, And somehow the sunset was lengthened, slowed up through a trick of the [...]

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