23 June HDT A fellla in a red HDT team jacket plays with an ipod or a miniature radio as he absently walks along the street looking right past me flipping between stations or songs searching for something as he manically walks on down Greville A muscle bound man controls two dogs a pug and [...]

Irish Murphys Clever name that Irish Murphys another ‘Irish impersonator’ pub with Guinness on tap and a band playing in the corner with a fiddle but no tonight it’s Nirvana meets Hudu Gurus 3 piece unit drums bass guitar they start playing in the corner through an aching stack of speakers I’m impressed such a [...]

He works on the ferries blue overalls and a friendly smile “good luck mate’ he says as we set sail the ferry pulls away rocking on Sydney Harbour we sway under the bridge bound for Darling Harbour and Milsons point the engines are vibrating up through the hull into the frame of the seat I’m [...]

A conversation on train “the day I found out they were seeing each other” “she’s so stupid” “message was if I got to talk to her” “oh my gosh” “I expected you to be ‘this’ person” “what the hell” “blocked her, can’t see anything on my facebook” “who is she, really” “she stole my boyfriend” [...]

A girl on the train in a school uniform cheeks blushed red hides in the corner a Maori boy is acting cool she’s looking at him you can tell she’s keen maybe tonight she’ll write about him in her diary confess her love express her dreams. Maybe by the end of the week she might [...]

Morning- it’s wet outside 7 am pickup now I’m in a room that’s humming with air conditioning an ECG thing a chest pain incident means the nurse is whisked away Catheterized a tube attaches to my hand like a Cyborg A string of people have come to visit and fill in forms and to make [...]

Pelicans soaring on thermals I would never have considered it circling on lazy wings higher and higher no flapping these elephantine imaginings simply soaring momentum it carries our lives in directions that we otherwise wouldn’t have seen

Central station & CBD Pigeons and seagulls a swarm of them eating something thrown by passers by it’s a living mass of individuals making a whole A Chinese woman with a mole out of proportion the size of a finger nail Westpac bank -George street a CHUBB Security van parked outside A nervous security officer [...]

Avalon A woman and child he’s two to three sitting directly behind me at the terminal asking lots of questions as a child does inane things about the plane as it taxis in about how tall the people are to be able to get into the door ‘up so high’ she hugs him and snuggles [...]

June 3 On the streets Shuffling the street in old painters jeans ragged beard looking in bins for cigarette butts picking things off the ground half smoked cigarette buts gatherings of people outside Flinders Street station sitting on milk crates with guitars they seem happy Train A train at night punching through a corridor of [...]