December is riding up to the pool on a 35 degree [Celsius] day on my bike wearing thongs. They flip about on the pedals that squeak with every revolution. The road pumps the shock from the forks straight into my arms as I cross the wide tongue of the main highway that licks it’s way [...]

How does something so squidgy, so mutable and pliant become a solid hard tough piece of pottery? Tough yet still brittle, fragile and beautiful. Day to day I guess we are numbed to the real wonders of it; plates, cups and bowls are all derived from the primordial sticky stuff we know as clay. It’s [...]

I am handed an arrow head of cake on a flimsy piece of toweling to celebrate the departure of a colleague – is it a celebration this departure or should we mourn? As that slice of deep brown chocolate mud sluices through my mouth I don’t care. The fuzzy texture disintegrates in my mouth like [...]

I wrap my rocky arms around you and protect you like a mother duck, you never give me thanks though. You just bob away silently with your long noses pointing to the endless sky that I talk to on a moment by moment basis. I pray to the sky like it’s a God but it [...]

St Kilda Road – the expressway for speeding ambulances and slug like trams to funnel their way to The Alfred Hospital. Sirens pulse in red and blue synchronicity with the lights and the pulse increases at intersections. Motors gun at high speed to get to emergency at the earliest convenience. The air ambulance sometimes passes [...]

This one was reel eel of a case. Every time he thought he’d gotten hold of one of those clues it just slipped away, leaving a greasy residue on his fingers, slimy , like afterbirth of a cow, hot and wet and sticky. He knows it’s not like television where the CSI labs in ultra [...]

Sometimes when I’m coming in to land at Tullamarine, just before the spoilers arch from under the wings with that yawning sound, before the wheels clunk into place, we make a left turn over suburbia. After parched fields of faded yellow we hang on top of a series of roofs, the hat for each mini-mansion, [...]

To me it always seems to be like wading through quick drying lead, this driving long distances- usually on a highway. Once up to the limit my hands become heavy magnets, attracted to the steering wheel, they lightly manouver the car round corners and up and down hills and dales. The road talks to the [...]

By the end of the night I felt as if a bowling ball had been inserted into my innards. Not that I’m complaining at all, it was all nicely done at that swanky awards dinner. The penguin suit pinched a bit on my shoulders- it hadn’t been worn in a while and I must have [...]

A church grave yard, haunting headstones in crumbling granite, a black smudge sitting on a parapet surveying its dominion, sending out a warning signal, “Faaaaark, faaaark”. The gentle ding dong sing song of other birds interupted by its knife edge sound blaring against tender ears. Taking to the air great mouthfuls of wing flash up [...]