Your fierce face

Your fierce face on the pillow— brows spearing down towards wide bisected koala nose succulent lips acute resilient chin. Tonight you are troubled by concerns beyond your scope: baffling sorrows pervading childhood’s lair… Felt inside the strident pitch of your father on the telephone; the tremulous tone of your mother’s lullabies. Felt in the streak of the cat, the slink …

Mourning Morning

    My mother’s house surrounds me in a shroud: the tinkling of the teaspoon as my father stirs his tea, his tea; the chug of the washing machine that never dies. The tubular wind chimes casting their cool auric spell around us; the complaint of the floorboards bearing up our lives. And the busyness, of the birds in bush …

a Christmas passing

    a Christmas passing travelling home on Christmas Day full hearts and bellies straining bush teeming on either side of this glistening snake of humanity from the front seat a few sighs and then the benevolent curtain of rain parts to let Great Uncle Tommy pass through     *On Christmas Day last year my great Uncle Tommy passed away …

‘Ms Suburbia’ published in Salon Style

  I have had a poem, Ms Suburbia, published in Salon Style: Fiction, Poetry & Art. Edited by Brian Centrone, Salon Style is an e-book of work by writers, poets, and artists, in diverse genres such as Gothic/Horror, Sci-Fi, Women’s Lit, and Americana. It really is a very eclectic mix of voices, and I’m proud to have been included. The book, which …

A Sudden Absence

I have had a new poem, A Sudden Absence, published in Bluepepper. Read it below, or better still, read it online at Bluepepper, where you will find an array of fine poetry on offer. This wonderful site, edited by Australian poet Justin Lowe, has recently been included in Pandora,the National Library of Australia’s Web Archive — which is a testament to the high …