Pink Floyd car’s rumble thickly bass on burnt strip of tar I skinny-dip in terracotta beats and wide open chords drawn long as the desert sky. Stopping for fuel heat; a burst of flies imagines a shiver in the air skin raking for breezes. Written for dVerse Quadrille "Shiver" This is a lasting memory of … Continue reading “Meddle”
From where I stand, washing dishes in a rectangular plastic tub, I can see the roiling approach of buff-shouldered clouds – a bellicose sky. A shard of lightning rips a fierce line down the purple horizon and I flinch, searingly aware of my metal watch. I take off all my jewellery and put it in … Continue reading Camp in Finke River National Park
Here now sketched dark against camellia pink a washboard sky we settle into this dry creek groove flames tick and fizzle around lamb chops bums sunk in canvas foot fired and smoke eyed review the day's Boab sightings milk bottle trunks, branches in a ghost’s wail and you peeling potatoes at the border - Fruit … Continue reading On the Road to Wolfe Creek Crater
Out of the Cave 