I fear all the darkness of humanit… is about to be seen to have fallen… and all the faces of the churches… of the mosques and temples, have t… It seems that all the gods have go…

Your reply email was dead pan, not even a hangman’s rope, hardly even a string. It came about ten minutes after mine to you.

The cafe’s special of the day is panic and frustration mixed together in a sauce of fear that confuses the diner as to what he is tasting at any po…

I first went through there in 1975… sitting in the back of my parents’ old, green ‘64 EH Holden. That tiny town was boarded up wit… staring harshly at any intruder,

I am Parramatta, her hopes and her dreams. I am her people, who laugh in the pubs, who slouch off to work

An old-fashioned television all black and grey on wooden legs in my parents’ dim lounge room

At first, it came every minute or… a slow, heavy sound, that swelled then exploded, like the tolling of… but not a fairy bell, or the bell… a strange sound, as if the bell wa…

In the dreams you have in your sof… under your downy doona, thinking you sleep the sleep of th… do you dream of the face of the Ch… hauled before temporal authorities

How did I get so lucky? Avoid so many wars? Walk through so much mud and avoid the attendant disease? How did I not grow old and lonely…

The time has come for the past to… like so many ancient skeletons, for the dead to walk the streets o… like children and beggars and grif… This is the time to greet long gon…

I enter into conversations with th… with the great and the humble, wit… I have these conversations with po… with novelists and scientists, wit… Rarely do I have these conversati…

So easily forgotten: Sarajevo, South Africa, Vietnam and that which was once simply Korea. And so many more,

Good night and goodbye to all that… and gone forever. Good morning and good fortune to a… that still remains. This is the meanest of times, the…

I am a pendant hung on a chain of thought I am a vision brought to life by a word I swing between realities

The old one’s dying/the baby’s alr… There’s blood on the sheets from both/clean it up/move along It’s the same/this day/as all days Sloughing off the sheets/stumbling…