Who lies sunk in the dust? Scrawling poetry to the stars above the Earth Home lies somewhere you lost In the arms of trees Where you’d sing with me Florence lights the sky with kites and kites and kites and kites and Carrying the hospitals across the big blue sea Who lies here in the north Reading poetry from the stars above the Earth Home lies...Learn More

Alas the spring should vanish with the rose That youth's sweet scented manuscript should close The nightingale that in the branches Say, "Ah whence an whither flown again, who knows?" The revelations of devout and learned who rose Before us and as prophets burned Are all but stories which awoke from sleep They told their fellows and to sleep...Learn More

Anchoress Let’s get dressed and forget this ever happened What a mess And your eyelids have started to run Lina I cannot forget Your father will see red Your husband cannot know He’ll bring our deaths On some different stage In a terrible shame Father and husband would both find a grave He’s holding your hair like strings This puppeteer’s secret...Learn More

I woke on a beach (Adelaide) Summer turned the sun on me In my father's suit (I was splayed out) As the light threw shapes on the land From the lofty heights (Adelaide) I feel like an aeroplane I can see the ghosts (from the estates) Float across St. Vincent’s blue face I forgot my name I was born inside a train Bound for Adelaide Pull the sand...Learn More

As the world calms A shiver still haunts us As the day crumbles We climb the stairs If I wasn't happy I wouldn't have stayed I bet that you know this But I still like to say it You fear for your sanity As if it was something You could take care of Like some kind of cat...Learn More

Eyes open to woes The cawing of kids like ghosts creeps over me The fingers through hair The trickle of tiny tears The cracks in our speech And there in your room She changes your life with tubes And gargles and glee In front of these eyes Of tired and aching hearts Where she could have been In the sea tides hold me On the air wings fold around...Learn More

We met, the sky winked in the eye of the bombs In café Taman Shud, Autumn '41 And I watched your lips move in a nurse uniform As we shared the one drink and before you moved off Slipped me the Rubaiyak of Omar Kahyyam I sat there a while after you'd gone Reciting his words while my whole body sang Oh Jestyn, I knew First on the redheaded...Learn More

As we were blowing our last cigarettes to the moon You said that you swore you heard music Coming from way out to sea But I couldn't hear you from above the noise of the waves As they crashed at my feet What a strange place to be I was a human, a vessel, a lover A paper bag filled with such useless things What a strange thing to be...Learn More

The loneliness seeps in the car The same one that’s in her eyes As she sucks on a cigarette you left her Back when venus fly traps lined her floor She’s no spider but it might make a nice metaphor He clumsily opens his mouth And slurs what he tumbles out Well no one could miss such a waste of breathing “My sweet girl you’ve come back home to...Learn More

Clouds across your sleeping face Where do we go when we escape Well there are lots of things that no one knows And all I said was “Damn this is frightening” And all I did was think about everything Weeds grow around your clock face They hold your hands like distant friends And in the depths of caverns turn the cogs of the Earth And all I said...Learn More