Station Feb 14 Youths getting onto a train With ripped bell bottom jeans Some corporate types Heading back to the city to catch other connections The madness of rush hour The collision of passengers on the concourse The information booth Granting customer satisfaction Shrouded in shrubbery Just dressing up plain wooden boards Are they assuaging [...]

Sometimes they just shouldn’t bother you know! Sequels that is, they just never measure up to the ‘blockbusterness’ of the original – though I did read that the latest ‘Angels and Demons’ – the sequel to the Da Vinci code – is pretty good go figure. There’s that whole procedure you go through at the [...]

Humid May Front door – humidity unusual for May creepers with purple flowers droop over a fence and yellow ones too Autumn leaves swirl Pushed by a tide of wind They come in a wave Into the shore of the pavement As if they’ve come From the greater ocean Hyperdrive Life I’m moving at half [...]

Down Torquay way, there’s a B & B we stayed at one time, an unusual arrangement with the place being like an additional room added to the top of the building – entry was through a security mesh door that clattered shut and a normal wooden door, but then there was a passageway that led [...]

Train tacks click metallically before the train arrives silver sonic booms and metallic whip cracks The song of hello as a woman answers someone on the telephone an up ward inflection on the ‘oh’ sound hel-’OH’ how ‘ARE’ you ? is this just Australian? A mini van it door slamming ‘drrrrr-duum’ A Holden V8 utility [...]

The recipe calls for the chicken to be daubed with a mixture of tarragon butter – so I’m going to have to make it. Of course I’ve done some forward planning and have a chicken, some butter and some tarragon – not that easy to find down at the supermarket – got to look real [...]

MEDICAL PROCEDURES It started out as an irregularity a flittering of the heart Somewhere on the left The ventricle started flipping like a flag in a manic breeze it woke me up at 6 a.m. as it had done several times this week and last and I decided it was time to do something about [...]

He stood nervously at the party clutching a drink as a safety buoy. It regularly visited his lips as he began to eclipse his fears with layers of alcohol. His attention had been drawn to a blonde with a short bob of hair on the other side of the room, yes if there was someone [...]

Most of today was consumd with trying to find an alternate melody and chordal structure for the chorus of ‘Low Maintainance’- not sure if I have succeeded yet- also did some more writing on a co-write on a song with workng title of ‘stranger at the table’. I also did a mix on ‘buried and [...]

After the shower has ceased a punishing round of heated droplets and the towel has rubbed me down like sandpaper. After I have stepped on the scales and witnessed the dial spin closer to my target weight and I step off and it springs back with a noisy reset mechanism. Yes after all that sometimes [...]