Jackson

… see yourself / approaching from / the distance | emerged from the mathematics of matrices | if all goes well you will be like the field || the “vacuum” would be like a deep calm sea | the simplest terms / your overwhelming Yes | relative to which all energies are defined … Read more

Dwellingup, Western Australia Foresters (said the sign) choose trees      for particular purposes. A perfect tree, tall, straight,      is taken for construction. The handrails of the treetop      viewing platform. Its planks.      Its high, deep-planted poles. The new stumps      of an old cottage. Its rough rafters.      Its window-frames, weatherboards. So a twisted tree is allowed      to grow,… Read more

The pale-barked gumtree is blossoming. Again it proposes its colours regardless of the state of— Oh to be roots, trunk, limbs! Diffuse autopoiesis, decentred process, no call for violence Years and years of flowers held out in my hands First published in PPC Covid Drum 4, Perth Poetry Club, April 2020 Read more

I looked up, and there was the sea First published in PPC Covid Drum 4, Perth Poetry Club, April 2020 Read more

If we had hovercars, we wouldn’t need asphalt. We could have grass! Flowers, shrubs, reedy lakes! The whole city would be cooler. It would rain more. We could have fountains for roundabouts, trees for traffic lights, if First published in PPC Covid Drum 4, Perth Poetry Club, April 2020 Read more

On a pale green wall in electric sunlight three china ducks fly up and away For perspective the leader has been made small, the last in line made large They work their brown wings, orange feet tucked, blue faces stretched out on white-ringed necks Though they fly all day and half the night they stay… Read more