Rooku
Autumn 2008 Collection
pet shop floor -
by the finches’ cage
two sparrows
idling in traffic
in rear vision mirror
two girls kissing
flash!
one fish
leaps to the breaking day
2050
nursing home full of senior citizens
with eyebrow piercings
Federation Square –
what shape would you
rather be?
marriage
do you take this woman, this man
for granted?
the mobile rang
in an empty carriage -
nobody heard
Southern Cross Station
where are all your stars
parked?
under the glaring sun
frowning at the decision
sausage or steak?
pigeon -
why do you choose
the black wire?
rainbow lorikeets
paint bomb
a bare Melbourne winter
Cup Day—
why am I no longer
his favourite?
year after year
perched on a bar stool at Pelligrini’s
watching my reflection age
smouldering moon
St Kilda pier
‘No’, she answers, ‘I cannot.’
Lake Mountain snowfall -
in my hand
my daughter’s first tooth
Saturday, 4pm
Prahran Market spruiker pleads
‘give peas a chance’
right now
in the midst
we fly
at the traffic lights
we stop quarrelling
green we go again
