Category: Poems
Over the past four decades, my poetry has been published in a range of Australian and international journals and anthologies. Since 2000 I’ve also posted hundreds of poems on this site, including many sonnets and search poems, as well as numerous poems that didn’t make it into chapbooks such as Abendland and Morgenland. For a while I ceased posting poems here, choosing instead to distribute them via my poem of the week newsletter. Then I stopped doing that, too. Every now and then I post a new poem … although not as often as I’d like.
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Baby monkey
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1 min read
The latest song of the week from Parry Gripp is a cheerful tribute to that baby monkey riding the mini pig … Our facility is USDA and FWC licensed and has over 20 years of experience. We are a wonderful facility, torturing the baby monkey and baby pig and laughing about it. The monkey clings…
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A Guide to Gracious Living
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3 min read
for Francesca on her wedding day
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“he is survived by his wife (and children”
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1 min read
barely rate a mention. But they in turn
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the trial continues
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1 min read
Let’s be mad scientists and make a Kafka clone!
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AN CAT DUBH
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2 min read
they airbrushed my face
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Stippen [polka dots]
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2 min read
Mijn co-piloot houdt stippen.
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Post
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1 min read
Well death hasn’t
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(On the tomb of) José Saramago
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1 min read
First published in the Lavender Room Zine-in-a-Matchbox Bumper Poetry Issue (2011).
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One hundred and five candles
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5 min read
For my grandmother, Mary Fitzgerald Unthank nee Hurley, 8 November 1905–16 September 2010.
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すべてCAPSはクヌギアレン
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1 min read
イーサイウェイ
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days roaring
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1 min read
This poem was first published in my chapbook Final Friday (2010).
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Leaves of Nagasaki
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2 min read
You did interest us …
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gember poes
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2 min read
nou, even kijken …
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Tasman Cain
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1 min read
PROF. J. E. HEERES, LL. D.
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Come with me, through
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1 min read
This poem was first published in my chapbook Final Friday (2010).