Zebra stipes at odd angles collide in black and green and brown, shards of colour, that cut into the surrounding background and merge. Military uniforms with muted buttons and high collars, face paint, in complimentary colours , going unnoticed , running on silent, riding with the lights off. Camouflage, keeping secrets, holding aces to your [...]

Thought we’d try a local pub one night in Fitzroy and wound up at the ‘Napier’. Inside it’s olde world mirrors and exposed polished timber, but to the side behind a locked set of gates is a courtyard. The air was pressing in with another humid Melbourne end of summer day as we set down [...]

The bundle of chips I am cupping seem to cut into my hand with the sharp edges, like a well ground kitchen knife, they swelter like a bar heater and seem to weigh as much as a motorcycle as I haul them up to the window. My guilt feels equally as weighty – somehow I’ve [...]

Dentist Went to see Doctor Danny about my teeth why put it off? almost been a year and a half I was meant to see him this time last year for my six monthly but I got the call to remind me and I was in Adelaide and it just was never a priority but [...]

Gas Leak Man fixing some pipes in front of the bakery there’s a scar in the sidewalk about one knee deep the smell of gas and a yellow hat He works away in a faded green jacket layers of dirt exposed the story of the earth diving through the concrete as deep as your forearm [...]

Legacy Thinking about my legacy and leaving a mark on history what is going to be left of ‘me’? The things I write? The things I think? And if nobody’s listening what’s the point in anything The purpose of life is to touch a heart the purpose of life is to love how far short [...]

May 17 sunday walk Marina A collection of Suzuki coupes down by St.Kilda marina squat little things must be a car club meeting they’re gathered around gesticulating talking about options for improvement I guess I note on the way back some of them have a badge ‘cappuccino’ maybe that’s what they are then Suzuki cappuccinos [...]

From about thirteen all I thought about was getting out, gaining my independence, being ‘me’  getting away from the boundaries of that tiny country town, where thoughts all were channeled into the same lines of football on Saturday, basketball on Thursday, badminton on Tuesday. Nothing else was going on, I didn’t want to conform, somebody [...]

It’s a Thai place where the waitresses smile at you from ear to ear and seem to float you to your table and then present you with embossed menus. The lighting is suffused enough so you just have to squint somewhat to read but the atmosphere is cosy, just the sort of place you want [...]

It begins as an idea, a vision, an inspiration and begins to take form. Architects shape a dream on sheets of rough paper, modeling the idea. The fresh smelling sheets are handed around at board room meetings where a hard has has not yet been seen. The winning bidder creates more details, licks the ground [...]