Friday, July 29, 2011

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

my new man

has turned my kitchen cupboards upside down.

Monday, July 25, 2011

strange, tubular jellyfish,

or ghostly eels:

dodgy strip lights strobing overhead.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

we crunch through burned brush to the brow of the hill. The secret valley lies below: the lake at its centre, its two hills steep and spread thick with heather.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

a boy bounces on a trampoline.

He closes his eyes,

inhales,

tastes the air with his fingers.

Friday, July 22, 2011

the travel guide sidles closer on the table,

flirts,

curls its soft cover toward my hand.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

a cat steps carefully into the depths of the overgrown flowerbed.

The long grass shivers in her wake.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Monday, July 18, 2011

reading an old book about bees, the fragile pages glow dark and golden.

I fall asleep and dream of honey.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

cows move in tight formation against the sheet rain,

pulling themselves through the grass by the mouth.

Friday, July 15, 2011

cacti bulge from white plastic pots.

Firm, ridged flesh, velvet buds.

A forcefield of thorns.

Alien beings with vicious eyelashes.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

we've not walked down this path for days.

The magnolia's leaves brush close to greet us.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

at the derelict pool, I remember

Mum's silly cozzie with conical, comical cups.

Tony's white bum, trunks floating away.

The life gods.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

there are hippies in Vegas. Dickie tummies, lost tickets.

Neat, looping script at ninety degrees.

Soft, tanned hands, turning pages.

Monday, July 4, 2011

my fingers read his palm.

Soft hills, deep, clear valleys.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

this beach is leaving an impression on the soles of my feet.

Popping candy shingle spangles.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

a girl stands, waist deep in flat sea.

She is wearing her red school jumper.

Her little sister watches from the shallows.

Friday, July 1, 2011

a deaf-blind woman is being spoken to.

She is gazing at the inner workings of her hands and wrists.

Her eyes are phosphorescent.