(1)Young Tom visited his great aunt, until he was ten years old, And soon after his next birthday, her old mansion would be sold, Since she died, and he would miss them both, as nine years changed the date. He completed school, did two years work, and started college late. (2)At the end of his [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
CABARET OF THE CLOUDS
Soft footsteps walk through streets near school, Past yesterday’s townhouses. In each nostalgic molecule Is something, which arouses. Old lessons learned so long ago (Viola, drums or trigon) Resurface, just enough to know: Those tunes aren’t fully bygone. A new sound crashes near the bay, And shakes the stone rotunda. The sky shows nature’s cabaret, [...]
The Clairvoyant
The Clairvoyant Little feet hastened on the grass, To the call of a mother, She was her mother since those days, Days of gory crimes the two were unaware, But there was one man, who knew it all, He dreamt of white flashes and red rivers, Suffered a saga of bloodshed, Drugged himself [...]
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