Its swivels back and forth like a clowns head at a sideshow stall, a steady sweep like a flight of pelicans to the left then a yacht sailing to the right. Despite its best efforts it isn’t helping much. The humidity is heavy as a road construction roller, grinding me down. No sheets, legs hanging [...]

Nothing, Nada, Zilch, Zippo. Sometimes round, sometimes stretched into an oblong infinite loop, though isn’t it the opposite of infinty? – Infinity that stretches out for ever, but don’t they fucntion the same? The infinity sign, a racing car track turned on its side joined at both ends, the zero, just cycling through again and [...]

“Just crumble please”, that’s what I used to ask for when the apple crumble would come out. It was in a pyrex dish so you could see those mushy stewed apples at the bottom. Across the top in a thick carpet was a topping of golden brown crumble. From my understanding it’s a simple thing; [...]

Starting to disintegrate, a black beetle sitting in my back pocket, a speed hump where the money flow halts – the buck stops here. A lump of fake leather – its edges starting to fray, revealing a cardboard interior, dull and lifeless like my bank balance. A plastic window traps a license inside and several [...]

Boom boom boom lets go back to my room so we can do it all night and you can make me feel right” propels out of speakers like a quarry explosion. Speakers that float like moons on the roof throwing out tangents of sound that arc on to the dance floor. Shane surveys the ground, [...]

Loyalty , it’s a stubborn fence post sitting in a paddock holding up the strains of wires keeping the animals in , faithful, sure and certain. Loyalty is butter spread all over the toast of human relations, a flagpole standing proud in the middle of the parade ground, the salute, the nod the acknowledgement. Loyalty [...]

Rarely have my nails been long enough to need to engage the services of one, just that time after trekking in Nepal where I was petrified of biting my nails, in case some turgid disease lay waste beneath them and was ready to give me a decent dose of Deli-beli. Yes those half moons were [...]

Princes bridge near Flinders street station, he’s got a spot half way along where a neat alcove is built into the 1800’s stone work. You hear it from the distance a strangled drone, a Buddhist hum and then dancing spiders of notes playing over the top of it  emerging from the upturned legs of the [...]

Not so much a piggy bank as a complex architectural conundrum, a frosted blue facia gives an insight into the insides of a square with mulltiple levels and walk-ways  and slots, the money will roll down the lanes and then free fall into the appropriate hole. The coins that leave smell of multiple transactions on [...]

Scrawny things, feathers lumpy and matted like they haven’t washed their hair for weeks. Thin too, like emaciated refugees, but they sure know how to gather. Just sit on a bench with a sandwhich or a pie or a roll,  as I do sometimes down near the housing commission flats. Elongated rectangles of architectural triumph. [...]