

White lilies underneath the moon
White lilies underneath the moon. Twenty white-hot blooms before the privet dark of hedge and house. ...


Almond trees
Almond trees- out of this black and iron-wood winter. August fences the long block on numb cracked...


Back from the old shoulder of a road
Back from the old shoulder of a road and the ephemeral silence of the grass huge barrelled rolls of hay have...


The grapefruit tree
The grapefruit tree on a damp side of the house where mortar frets stink of fallen fruit the nose cannot...


A gum tree in the rain
A gum tree in the rain. Volatile vapours from countless crescent leaves, small hung moons of transpiration...


The gum trees are stripping.
The gum trees are stripping. Long braids of thin ochre shadows not peeling but waving. Flagging this yearly...


Consider this gum leaf
Consider this gum leaf: here is the reed that plays in the dry throat of a hot northerly, ...


Hold perfect rose*
Hold perfect rose* growing out of twilight intense upon the redolent air I think of you now ...


Winter light is best
Winter light is best it sets itself against dark backgrounds. The rainbow knows its own degrees but in...


Thistles at sunset
Thistles at sunset. Big boll heads of straw and spur strong sway above old red gum posts. Raise...













