redbacks escape

down my best mates' dunny

the sea change

With a quiet nod to John McDonald and Comrade Harps...

Back burning in the national parks begins early Spring. The suburbs take on a surreal glow from the sun through the rising smoke. The light and the smell of ash from the first back burn signals summer is around the corner, when the bushfires start.

                                                   balconies lit
                                                   by a smouldering sun
                                                                  first back burn

desert wind

a wire fence stretches

to nowhere

Heron's Nest, Vol XI, Number 4, Dec 2009

withdrawing

from the petals - the bee's

wandering eye