Antenatal Classes
[a nativity poem in three trimesters] The First Trimester Miriam’s chromosome in courting spirals Embraces another, such an other — an unfathomable Y. All the junk, viral, evolutionary,...
Poetry
20 postsAll who have departed —William Saumarez Smith
THE PREACHER’S PRAYER LORD, when my heart is slow to feel, And when my lips are slow to speak, And yet my heart still Thee doth...
Thoughts of a Tree in Autumn.
1. Deliberation. With less vigour comes deliberation. Those things done, are hard done. Sitting comes to do. Rooted. Even the dust swirls more slowly in the quiet....
New like New.
For Easter Sunday New, like the second coming To faith of an old man In the love of the plain Faced. Like their autumnal child. Unplanned. New, like...
For God's Elect in Shopping Malls.
For those who would not choose to grow old before the Son of Man comes. A woman with eyes painted on her boobs. Another reading ‘dodgy’...
Chasing after the Wind
Chasing after the Wind In the armpit of a tree between striking chords of grass everything chasing nothing everybody chasing breaking wind to interrupt the symphony of airconditioners...
Stephen Edgar: Memorial
[This post contains an image and a poem depicting an event that was utterly abhorrent, and that some people may therefore find offensive] Les Murray is a poet...
Les Murray, Stephen Edgar
How often do you get the opportunity to walk up to the author of some of your favourite words and say “thankyou”? I did tonight. Les...
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