Hemalata

Undergrowth tangle –
Matted nests of brown dried grass.
Flash of bright blue wren.

A ship slips by on the sinking sunset,
On the mist-smeared line between ocean and sky.
A shadow-puppet shape, flat and grey,
A ghost ship sliding over pink-smudged skies.

From Fremantle t…

Holidays stretch the present -
almost timeless!

Lorikeet’s screech -

Piercing the sea’s windsong.

My father was always there in the background of my life, solid, sunbitten, at times more a shape than a personality. He was born, grew up, worked and died on the same piece of land – a gusty h…

Middle age -
Spreading wisdom
and waistline!

Dancing golden leaves
Spinning in a warm current.
Dervish’s delight.

Silent, pending
The morning mist is everywhere.
A cat curls.

Hang gliders:
Eagles’ shadows
On sandstone cliffs.

An old rain-stained fence
in a paddock newly damp
A magpie rejoices.