Poetry
Summer 1992
You Must Love
You must love the land when you leave to build your house on the sea Love what’s lost the mango tree burning in the garden the curious noose of the […]
Poetry
Summer 1992
The Blood Abroad
When Red Buttons was gored by a rhino in Hatari he bled deep into my memory and lives there with Wayne giant red roots out of his arm Wayne about […]
Poetry
Autumn 1991
There Are Many Things I Want to Tell You
There are many things I want to tell you, how in the lamp nightred candles light your hair, how in the day, the Sun like your father kissesyour three-year-old ear, […]
Poetry
Autumn 1991
The White Piano
Water on a blade, paddy grows, the Sun shreds the night, newborn kingsfish old wormsfrom shiny pools. Tears on lotus blossom, blood birdshunt for pups; as the white piano among […]
Poetry
Summer 1994
Monsoon in the West
The monsoon filled the tanks, shroomed the onions and brinjals, flooded the tobacco, to hear boys’ bells clapping herding goats over a far green earth, by a morning stream where […]
Poetry
Summer 1994
Drop Out
She dropped out left a piece of her head chipped on the 21st floor, legs snapped off the 16th ledge, eyes on the 10th pigeon-plucked; on the stone ground heart […]