between two worlds we build & marry severing the traditional & the modern we betray girls armed with diamonds our aluminium hangs mispronounced in the united states of ten year old tin we stare dumbly at these swords they handed out during rehearsal & dream of the simplicity of kurosawa villagers hiding their girls from…

for John Winston Howard at the end of the day comes the night when the lights go out you can’t see anything when everything’s dark anything can happen if there’s no light on nobody’s at home or else they’re asleep when nothing’s bright no thing really exists once all is darkness no light comes until…

this isnt home & away you know you’ll never be tammin sursok & im not even sure who id cast as you hate your waxed arrogance but we havent turned into digits yet have you noticed how a surf clubs transformed by childhood tuckshops free icees sunny boys how a girls smiles erased by the…

Beyond the firewall, Thetes a-drilling. Scintillation, precise as tubes. Spot flares bask the gamma rays in fog. What use is a snow pistol? My electronic ink freezes the display. My read-outs betray a breeze. I wheeze – in & out – relieved & finally on Mars.

it will not go away driving in a car kissing your lover goodbye smell it in the air feel it in your lungs shave off all of your hair & say “goodbye this time coz i’m breathing the flicker of a breeze i see it in your eyes its time to go away were coming…

only these three things can make me cry images of deaf children hearing for the first time (the first word: mother) a look of utter joy most of us cannot remember a memory of my mother bringing me hot chocolate and a biscuit she drops the tray that one makes me cry small families with…

the human ear is a barrier between us & the world of sound once its lost then we have no need to tell birds apart in effect eternal sounds erased an inverted dome the brain sets in like a permaculture pond sucks the earth it can hear your blood & your heart’s a rising crescendo…