Balcony

Dusk. The freeway’s haze; Green Australian gum trees Soak up the spectrum. Sparrows in the elms: Fans dressed for a football match Scale autumn’s ladder. Australian icon: Southern Cross windmill, rusted By the passing cars. Siamese cats scan The corrugated…

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Renga

A few months ago I was asked to be part of a renga with Keiji Minato (a Kyoto-based poet whom I had the great pleasure to meet last year) and another Japanese poet named Hiroshi. We wrote ku in turns,…

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Vietnam Haiku

ho chi minh city motorcycle touts in wait around the corner hello where you from give me all your aussie coins for my collection non-touristique trek departing soon or later same same but different yesterday’s papers in the streets of…

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