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 [...]

Smelling Greville Street I walk home determined to focus on smell On Chatham Street there’s a row of wheelie bins In camouflage green I smell them and the remainder of something that needs washing out it’s pure rot Along side the Coles car park I smell a sausage sizzle Somebody raising donations for some charity [...]

Breakfast – Sat May 16 Light rain this morning Just mist And the occasional big bits Full drops But I can duck for cover at any moment So I’m not too worried I sprint past a Greek grandmother Bent over double Moving along at a slow slow shuffle Even I am not going at a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]