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  • rouse

    salted brine-stained lips linger on a closed mouth smile master of the ardent kiss with your heart painted shut   you rouse a tidal yearning to be stretched between us… Read more

  • fallen tree

    fallen tree I smelled you today like loamy soil and spinach greens fallen tree I heard you like water on scorched earth sighing fallen tree I felt your pruned limbs ache from loss of attachment… Read more

  • an opinion piece

    Yes, yes, slacker alert blog-wise! It’s been a bonkers fortnight, with little time for anything other than work and sleep, and the odd chat with the chooks. Zero writing accomplished, but there’s always… Read more

  • Flash Tea

    This week I purchased some quality herb tea. A flash brand, rather than the sawdust they sell in the supermarkets. What I like most (beyond the taste of course) are the tags. Each one… Read more

  • Stagger

    Sand ridges in perfect formation like frozen waves caress the beach.   I walk the track a drunkard’s stagger timed with the ocean.   ‘You have to pass by the door… Read more

  • Parrots & Pay Equity

    This week while faithfully doing downward dog, I’ve been able to smell wet earth, for no particular reason. But it’s been coming up through the floor when my nose is… Read more

  • Fallen Idols

    Several famous people have left this landscape of late. Where they are headed, only they can know. Perhaps for some they are fallen idols – not to be confused with idylls or… Read more

  • Resolute Blankness

    Another calendar year has passed. And a new one has begun. Where will this year lead, or should I be leading it? ‘The Novel’ has morphed into a concise, punchy short… Read more

  • Last Post

    So here we are almost at the end of 2015. Where has the year gone?  I’m pretty sure I ask myself this every year. Equally sure am I, of the… Read more

  • Connection

    It’s been some time since I wrote more than a few lines. Life has been, in a word, hectic. This week, back in my hometown (for more than five minutes),… Read more