It gets more insistent as the year… shadowing all my hours of all of m… like Jesus knocking on the door wi… It’s a heavy ache, always there, like the sky looks before the rain…

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…

It’s an unpredictable day. Eight thirty in the morning and not a hint

You and I are a late written rock song. Free of all things, children mithering, grandchildren… mothers judging, fathers chastisin…

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…

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…

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 dwell or rather exist at this bone-hard time of cold dark weather of cold dark change this time of closure

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,

Somehow Troy became deluded into… that he was a hat, Gandalf’s hat to be precise. He bought wizardy high boots, which he insisted were possessed

This place smells richly of the mu… of cars and trucks, and hot tarmac… of the rich tapestry of the gum tr… roses and carnations in the park j… Its ordinary nature is so heighten…

The walls of this church mutter, and these buildings speak in strid… or scream their resentment like nails being pulled from ancie… These streets whisper the old disc…

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

I’m uncomfortable this morning, a… for you. You posted a field of lav… on Facebook, they were waving in t… It felt to me like a church in a f… a field saluting, a straitened, sa…