April 2020

I feel numb broken and lifeless I lay still in bed My legs have turned into  large trunks of a wild cherry tree My room feels snug and safe The dark drapes of curtains of plush mauve are half-drawn to

Why would one shoelace break before the other? Aren’t they meant to live and die as one? Were there unseen stresses we did not expect? Biases in usage we could not predict?  Underlying weaknesses we failed to diagnose? At what

Did you know roots would run through into deep dark crevices of land? of heart? run across breaking boundaries of land? of heart? Did you know branches would spread bear burdens, tears? grant hope? Leaves caressed by dry winds would

Your eyes are so selfish…  Full of passion; searching for a sigh of bliss Show me your needs, what can I give?  I know you are all his; an object to please. 

“Was your partner a virgin before you met him?” the GP at the Medical  Centre asked me. “I don’t know. At least that’s what I like to think…” I answered, puzzled by his question. “Australian couples cheat all the time.

  Thud I throw two red balls at the brick wall of our house. Thud Charlie Chaplin went to France. To show the ladies how to dance First you do the rhumba Then you do the kicks Then you do the

On a day like this dawn hauls herself upright pink fingers curling above the rim   on a day like this queuing for basics among empty shelves spilt frozen peas scrunch underfoot   on a day like this navigating the

Do not fear, do not panic: words I keep hearing everywhere I turn. A part of me wants to scream the words, what if! What if I wake up tomorrow and there is nowhere to run to, or I am too

Is it the return of The Black Death? A new holocaust? A cleanse? We are making history these days Living the sci-fi novels of yesterday And I think of all the holocaust movies where the rations were limited Housebound

I settle into captivity  with a beloved  hallucination. Bearing a face of lulling  lucid dreams. Our indiscernible torsos collide  in this sanctuary of candlelight  and vapour abiding. Uninterrupted. And I’m falling into this misled  by the desires  of this heart unsettled,

Dear Baba, Since you left us, nothing has much changed except that we could not celebrate Bebo’s birthday last year. I forgot to tell you about the postponement of the marriage of your nephew because he was

Sunday, 1 February The day dawns. Sulphur-crested cockatoos shriek as they rise from the trees. Startled kookaburras call out in raucous laughter and baby magpies squawk. By mid-morning, heat and humidity drive the locals to the spring-fed creek that bubbles

Ending & beginning Naked at last Ocean of fire within Plainsong of the crone A wise woman   a wild woman Undaunted to the last Spitting sparks Exalted

So at last we made CBS Saw the burnt out rubble at seven Eden on earth that piece of heaven (or so they said) Burnt now, all smoke and loot and sand as the great silence of death fell

He always worried about his kids’ safety. It propelled him to make sure someone accompanied them wherever they went, be it school or recreation.  Recently, he had installed cameras in their rooms that were connected to devices so he and his