I WANT TO UNRAVEL YOU
I want to unravel you like a ball of sky blue wool. I want to tease away the tangles, and the pain, so cruel. I want to slip my fingers into every knot of thought and pull you free, unfettered... And I want to be [...]
SOUTH-WEST BELONGING
This poem won the 2011 Perilously Short (Nature) Writing Competition sponsored by Perilous Adventures Magazine. Southern seas baptise her. Tall forests cloak her green. Karri, marri, jarrah – sound their names like psalms in a landscape that maps longing into deep belonging. She is a [...]
DISPLACED SOUNDSCAPE
Let maybe-owls or flutter-tongue frogs plait sound-ropes – silk and polyphonic, veronese green through grey – with stuttering of staccato-moon crickets to titillate the gladdening dark, displacing and disgracing hallowed ghosts away. Published in Sunlight of Ordinary Days by Twelve Poets of the Peter Cowan [...]
RESURRECTION AT POISON POINT
This poem was performed with two voices at the 2010 Festival of Voice in Denmark, WA and won first place in the Poetry Slam Championship. Stepping across slanted stone, rimmed by marri and peppermint and the crenellated calls of cormorant and swan, the [...]
SHIMMER AT LIGHTS
Granite has gathered this pocket of sea no crash, no rip where memory’s sediment glitters free Seaweed words weave and wrap, slip and slap, without current slide into tidelines with shattered shell feet till veiled verse laps salted, green, and breaks into shimmer a glimmer [...]
PINK PELARGONIUM
Dune-locking pink pelargonium – petals laddered with dark diamonds, leaves crisped to small green fists, clenched against salt and wind – what gentle siege is this? Published in Dark Diamonds (Hallowell Press, 2012)