leaping tuna with flashing tails aloft aloft over the wheeling Earth brushed aluminium scales gill-flap moon until I sleep blows bubbles sky high, scant white froth of cloud and I’m down deep on sea’s bed rummaging light a shouldered mist soft hum and spume of spray laddered eucalypt takes flight silver and black my kelpish … Continue reading night of the flying fish
Tag: insomnia
A Honey Night
I watch the night creep along the slender pink bough of next door’s gum illuminated by that ha’penny moon and dripping with bronze questions thicker than Pooh Bear’s honey. I lie here, thoughts traveling ‘round and around like Piglet’s footsteps in the snow, small but firm I guess, and as trotters would, imprinting deeply the … Continue reading A Honey Night
After Midnight
I'm just awake with the clocks all glowing ground down with grazing from thought to thought eyes like goggles swollen and garbled and no stars to blink with basting the gloaming it's just me and the typewriter rain I'm in somnia and can't get out flailing or breathing from heartbeat to heartbeat sleepy but hanging … Continue reading After Midnight