Axis, what axis, O Achilles don’t ask about my ankle
Breasted with sweat is likely in the forecast, on the boil
Cherry blossom was on my mind, not the new carpet squares in the lift
Digital noise, waves at temples, the cords, the drumming
Envelopes calling my name, and this egg on the face of a new version
Flex, files, there is nothing fancy grown here
Grant or grovel, the telephone juggles the calls
Hovercraft or the soul buzzing just above, a handbook tells no story
Irritants more than spring's imp, flying into my eyes
Jars in the bones, on the shelf, don’t jump
Kitchen action, a spider clumped on the switch, kooky all day
Legal action, legislative lugubrosities
Machine translations and other music anxious moments, my history in my shoulder
Nil return, nothing more until
Ormolu ticking in a back alley, near windmills and papyrus, fake ostrich feathers Paper cups, a leftover, pencils smelling of cedar, a postcard pinned to the flimsy walls
Queen reading poetry, jumping through lush hoops, last night’s quest
Ringing, ringing, ringing, it won't stop
Splashes of cloud against blue slopes and filtered horizons
Tremors, something behind the eyes testing me
Ugly letters with return addresses, there's no going under
Veins crossing my palm left to right, without knotting vision yet
With a youth I used to swagger round wearing dazzles
Xanthic despite the silver mouse in my hand, o remember the days of xerox
Yoghurt isn't a food, she says, I have yawed by it, fetid and stale
Zooshed, and sticky with the product of the world, this zone of my own
Ten ways of going about morning
1. sometimes it's fog with the gone lamentations
2. gunfire cracking glass - five shots what worries these
3. sometimes bruises from the mugging through zones once paths and hills
4. constant sun if the things I know pass me
5. more trolleys how was it ever
6. phone call always some trouble
7. teams of cockatoos death and harvest, dust and iron
8. zombie dreams small glimmering gaps between messages
9. green et in arcadia ego
10. singing up my sheep a shimmer at the top of the room
to …
time to look at the dark side time to look within time to look at the corpse time to bury the corpse time to walk time to walk on, to walk away, to walk along time to acknowledge the corpse time to look time to walk time
an afternoon in the garden
the birds: new holland honey eater, red wattle bird, spotted turtle dove, ibis, magpie, wagtail, noisy mynah, a raptor high up
also in the sky: high jet trails, a red kite with two blue tails
white blossoms fall on us or blow down
jacaranda stalks
the sound of a kids' party, plane roar, traffic, someone talking to dogs, some doof doof music in the street below
newspaper scattered around, last minute polling, who should bat at number three, obituaries, nobel prizes