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skateboard and black tights
smartphone
turned to the blue stars

30313

in her wake
our ordinary failures
moral injuries

29313

the battery acid chronicles
an oxygen chic
of pale corruption

28313

bass pulse
sleep pulls
me together

27313

her curves
all over the couch
sleep

26313

each shudder
black velvet
her shoes

25313

meteors
silent snare drums
between ancient stars

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24313

gardens drawn
on her arms
a method of conformity

23313

over crest
in blue sun
a container island

22313+

autumn wind
i hear
a roller coaster

22313

beach bags
and the bus in sight
girls in skirts run

21313

apocryphal beautiful
city
a mountain of stars

20313

i read Bob Katter
on a cafe
with a beautiful gene pool

19313

an unacquainted privacy
our distance
to tears

18313

i find
an orphaned word
a home

17313

night voice discuss

something

the wind
follows

16313

green fields site
waits for a Sunday
normal time

15313

the divinity of conflict
a depth of warmth
blue as a Picasso tear

14313

circles back
a crowd on the beach
tonight

13313+

an approximation
the receptionist
knows my name

13313

a city's logic
sealed against seasons
and stars

12313

tail light fireline
a flight path
across the curve

11313+

where her lips have been
too sweet
to talk dirty

11313

a crowded shop
i bump
the volume of a goddess

10313+ #poem Two lanes each way ( slightly revised)

Recently written to order, during my lunch break, with a deadline of "today would be nice", for Pearl Magazine. You can see the original on page 46 of the March edition of Pearl, a free music, arts, events and entertainment magazine on the Mornington Peninsula. Thanks to Andrea Louise Thomas for the invitation.

This version features modifications.

Two lanes each way

cars bypass
the stop
go circus
glide on the ton
past Alice's cocktail
and Dubai skyline
above the ram's skull
red-brown
with the rust of inland drought
and the slow tree
of silver wind
ooparts
that signal ramps
to suburbs and towns
pastures
vineyards
galleries and beaches
on the green peninsula wonderland
a lush branch of many cultures
amid the bare blue mask
of encircling tides

10313

silhouettes descend
stairs under rooftop palms
glass shadows Camberwell

9313

a song I associate with heat
love
and a small chemist

8313

shall walks past
an unheard song
on a slow screen

7313

smaller than her hands
the red barns
on her chest

6313

crickets and gentle rain
Andy's old house
is for lease

5313

her smile and shades
a remnant
of the radial line

4313

her part
through luxurious bush
a retro fetish

3313

waitress in black
her hands
bring cream

2313

only others
I fall
to grace

1313

stands in shade
black flowers on white cotton
platform 2

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she asks me to take her there
but she doesn't know the name
or the place

30113

wheat plains
and sky
beige blue

29113

on wheat fields
outbreaks
of green

28113

shadow navigation
a subtle
unconscious movement

27112

their quiet talk
over take away coffee
on the police station steps

26112

the calm
emotional silence
of pharmacy

25113

skin
and a consensual acceptance
of breath

24113

the sky
indifferent
to the city

23113

cinema into day
a prediction
of rain

22113

a community of layers
we walk
the depth of centre

21113

a theoretical underpinning
the room
decays

20113

ballistic
a flight
by hand

19113

still light horizon
the blood pulse beat
an indirect confession

18113

warm night
cold
on my feet

17113

butterfly ink
a reflection
of swing

16113

she leaves
on my back
a heat map

15113

words fall
the tone of her hands
a custom

14113

the bounce
of a private need
repeated

13113

12113

beneath blue horizon
bushfire haze
(the way) she swims

11113

pleasure centre
aisle three
mobile

10113

highway floats
an epic soundwave
torchsong

9113

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in the shade of a grey fence
a timid tortoise shell
cat on a leash

7113

a slow curl
the smoke in his mouth
a withdrawal of days

6113

her head
on his shoulder
a grey cardigan

5113

pale blonde
in summer white dress
and blood red fingernails

4113

her naked body
enough saliva
for one

3113

waits for wellness
or otherwise
with tears of boredom

2113

1113

morning after the year before
awoken
by crows