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Here are my poems. I also usually post drafts of all new poems on my blog wardrobe in the cupboard.

This list can be sorted by title or year. The poem collections page is another way into the maze..


a void 2016 The fear of a void in my writing biography slowly opening up every day the wound grows, it howl. . .
an argument 2015 a little spot of wine and a little spot of black some sweet apple tea and a big fight with wife. . .
Charlie Hebdo 2015 how funny that you have shot your friends Charlie Hebdo are the best kind of friend they are. . .
dust blanket reversal pome c1843 2015 the rolled warm dogsbody of a lumpen stranger lays asleep under the verandah a bright morning. . .
For all 2015 little pill a dream opens - capital 'A' blasted on my mind and upside down - an ox he. . .
fragmen 2015 sometimes ties cost the race it is not unheard of - the boat on the harbour bobbing there on th. . .
poet rebel 2015 the idea is all that counts the body is transient - that is the idea anyway you can kill this. . .
the clipper 2015 the clipper moves faster than the wind herself nothing pauses her glide except - waterfowl eg. . .
the good news 2015 despair despair, the floods, the floods are rising despair the naysayers, despair the fools who r. . .
there is a plan 2015 an open wardrobe.. pieces of time fly fly past my eye, she said "fuck off" and sighed . . .
this poem has been blocked by your anti-poem software 2015 the ant trails running discourses to the edge of the ocean fabulous planes crash in millennial co. . .
Vale Burra Park trees 2015 stroke the attic of the valley soul you old wizened things bitten by many frosts, you measured . . .
watt things gold 2015 initials silencia by worms a painted argument– time is a gun gone off now in variable di. . .
1990 Ektachrome 2014 memory fades the bright inflorescences like chemicals in an old filmstock but when you look aw. . .
4-10 am 2014 all is one and one is all we assume whatever form she likes or if we assume no form th. . .
a dream ends 2014 for all antiquity nature stood still then for one split second the dream quivered the scal. . .
amoeba curlicue abacus 2014 each prick - be it a little devil or jesus - i believe in it. this beans me argyle cafe, 1. . .
brain crack 2014 splintering - a slinky shard of glass a cutlass gyrates down into phantoms to crack the eggn. . .
cauldron eyes 2014 I am sucked into you like a spark into a dark cauldron the briefest spasms seek to get out but . . .
cloud chamber 2014 flagging and empty the carousel passes a recurrent sadness the playhouse where children da. . .
eagle risen 2014 a torrent of blood swelling into the valley at the far end the girl with the halo and sunken e. . .
firefly 2014 little pyre in the air flying around the marijuana grove I like to catch you - but there! it is. . .
growth rings 2014 look at me each line marks the dead flesh the opening up of the heartwood with a sharp . . .
ineffectual fancy 2014 when the eye opens we forget everything eternity sleeps in every blink the black of night t. . .
just testin 2014 just to see really if there's anything still in there i knock on dead wood the inner prec. . .
lemuria 2014 the dark chords and tendons that prop up my corpid form leave hollow the body of an instrument . . .
mind fog ballast 2014 THAT luminal night of urchins' insolent lollipops so sucked spikes antigone going into the g. . .
Psyche 2014 catching the plague an agar dish waits its fate the poet brain sniffing the breeze for an ari. . .
pumpkin 2014 the skin opens a balloon vocalising its innards slow and unwound very very so the atmosphe. . .
show me the money 2014 i asked her to show me where the debt was she pointed to a small number on a piece of white paper. . .
the perfect doctrine 2014 the perfect doctrine cannot fail it doesn't know about failure and will persist against crit. . .
the white castle 2014 a kangaroo leaps into a barbed wire fence man: marinj star posts strike against legs the e. . .
three seasons 2014 what did we start? a fire blown up fierce and bright it burned through the world left it smoul. . .
tuggas girl 2014 she doesn't need the needle in her hand an accent is what shoots up her nose like a snor. . .
white phosophorus 2014 white phosphorus is stuffed into polyester the one eyed brain zeros in and locks onto a. . .
belief sphere 2013 outside the known sphere of the universe          of universe cities lie. . .
bios 2013 prosody fought back with a barb and a pin and stuck it write in like the trembling clime and. . .
Bob Dylans Excremerit 2013 "You can't go through life without reading some kind of book." - Bob Dylan, Rolling St. . .
Canberra 2013 2013: a centennial year poem a crass grass ridden place hidden behind civic sheen empty stre. . .
free the tongue 2013 the poet's tongue must be free from complicity in anti-liberty no sooner set up words . . .
Poem written on opening of the new supercomputer Raijin 2013 the supercomputer is squared and black with neon openings her warm dark body shades the ro. . .
Slowly, Deeply, Badly 2013 βραδέως, βαθέως κα̥. . .
The tea shop has closed 2013 everywhere around the placemat a great scourge is unfolding the tea shops are all closing this . . .
a whiff of geist 2012 2028 eclipse happens to open a wormhole to our antient selves, looking back beyond apophic destru. . .
bliss echo 2012 essence of emptiness upturned like a mug of water on my body tonite pleasances meet at ho. . .
brother blab 2012 oil poor stupid peloponnesian mind shaping fanatics speaking of fantastics and unshaping truths. . .
effortless movements 2012 i am suspicious of any signs of effort by them i can tell if you are doubting yourself th. . .
existential poem 2012 if a poet is created by the act of writing a poem then does it matter if the poet rejects his cr. . .
igloo 2012 i await news of you in my igloo tie my intestines in knots poke flies in my eyes vomit convuls. . .
in embers 2012 an arsenic envy seizes the inside of me but it is only a butterfly passing by like a cat l. . .
lies, all lies 2012 poems are as smoke seeping through the grille of words from an unseen fire . . .
meditation on mt budawang 2012 there was a beat sermon had upon a mountain but Budawang beneath its closed lid bears an unlame. . .
Necronomica (extract from a dream) 2012 today, i had a strange illusion, in my dream, a swan came to me and spoke with a bound leather ton. . .
Nichols Gorge Wetwang 2012 what is a number? just a little indivisible piece of nothing wrapped around on itself the nu. . .
premeditated 2012 to premeditate is to do something before meditating like putting on a cup of tea or reading a n. . .
riding swiss hide (notes) 2012 take the cool silver tube into your mouth the little prick tucked behind your front teeth and. . .
S 2012 lightning never strikes twice except in the heart where bliss touches herself in the innocence . . .
salsa verde 2012 your blood is hot and blue when i come near you i know the season in your veins bright a. . .
so far so far fruit machine 2012 so far so far All the fish in Alabama got a massage from their mama two little fishy hands on th. . .
svilver 2012 life has a knife concealed in her pleasant hand once you see it flash you cannot forget it . . .
the farce 2012 have you been there? if you have you will know what i mean if you have been there you'll. . .
the forest 2012 idly walking in the forest of eucalypts in my heated mind i am surrounded by naked ladies jamme. . .
the religion question 2012 i am a mean old Manichaean my seer like insanity brightly isolating me from the sober darkness. . .
vulture rock 2012 like a scavenging bird hangs over a decayed cadaver the fire rescue helicopter pauses above the s. . .
youth bemusement 2012 the rain sprinkles calmly on a wet wet land your eyes are mirrors in the midday sun my body a be. . .
a nice day 2011 cup of tea piece of wine an herb bring peace to me in pieces one by one farthing by farthing . . .
amour 2011 a fragment of mine long long ago encountered a piece of yours it was the first day of spring. . .
asbestos dream 2011 held underwater by society's hands after the initial kick i am happy to go limp and float as. . .
Cat 2011 my dream cat would live in the window box and stare out at all the other cats and the humans a. . .
closm 2011 prescient impressions of you closed, jammed, into my skull locked there for weeks like knotted. . .
diary entry jan 2011 2011 the slow glide of change slices through me like it did my parents and theirs - sliced like lemon. . .
edit 2011 open a bomb inside, flowers, sparkly bits of stuff white powder a nerve ending power cable e. . .
ghast 2011 when the fog lifted the aircraft men saw that a terrible accident had taken place silently . . .
la Tsar bomba 2011 the big anise hit unloading and curdling the atmosphere took us up with it two dreams- up i. . .
life is pain only 2011 why endure the suffering to the end when the disease kills us always the living-disease such. . .
new journal 2011 the first page is always the hardest with the first incision of the surgeon's pen we transmu. . .
nisty insects 2011 nisty insincts intir mi skin clawl into plices in devour me from inside ill ligaments ingre. . .
nones 2011 witness and egg an unlikley union to facedown move a motion on the murderer turning tables . . .
Open letter to the editor 2011 today i shall be: a half poet in a tin hat a father to three a prescient embalmer of wounds a . . .
sleep apart 2011 so late, so late the world is sleeping tight tonight and i am up with the bub and the night l. . .
Smile 2011 laughter comes easy like water flowing over rocks on a summers day that sound half splash ha. . .
so so soho 2011 so miserable so nothing whenever whatever money trickling away the senior generation can't. . .
strange dance 2011 i like to flirt with insanity the undertow of ancient china beliefs cast into the vortex. . .
the big shbang 2011 lonely hearts don't know themselves is it possible to destroy a soul? maybe temporaril. . .
the chain 2011 I suppose there are two analogies for the chain passing through the hand the flush and the enta. . .
the last time 2011 last time i was here you tickled me under the chin with a feather you said it was the most perf. . .
the success of failure 2011 in the last few months i've lost a battle with myself on some level i resigned - to the. . .
what i want 2011 1. get out of this downward spiral funk 2. go to India, grow a beard 3. hear from my friends… em. . .
Confessional No.2 2010 Lapping up images like a doggy the body is transient i know the lie still i run on and on the . . .
Demimorgue 2010 before rigor mortis had set in i was to insert a gloved hand and check for a foreign object in t. . .
enlightenment poem 2010 got kensho? anybody can do nothing unless they got kensho go get kensho then do something . . .
four other ways to approach the numinous 2010 1. by the mystery of presence cock in hole, lady enjambed in another lady, cock in mout. . .
Hume vs Popper 2010 it's not just that i feel uninspired my attempt has been as squalid as the next fumbling around . . .
indolence 2010 in the quiet room i sit and fester in my indolence whilst a slight movement of air outside and. . .
love park 2010 for every stream there is an ex-stream for every site there is an oppo-site so tell me . . .
machine head 2010 the original maths that impregnated these gears rolling about the sun-gear this stampede of a. . .
odd haiku 2010 two snails and an oyster disappear as sea squirts squirt the foam washing over sharp rocks. . .
opening 2010 as when the first dust out of the sun strikes an eucalypt bud opening at dawn and the crims. . .
pressed cellulose and pinned hummingbees 2010 #1032 Papaver spp. picked too early, already drooping, the stem hovering half an inch over the wat. . .
prosaic fusebox doll 2010 empty paper fills her head while the unspent impulses play themselves out internally i seek . . .
scientific method 2010 (about the big bang theory) I do agree with the prevailing dictum that we are particles of sp. . .
the cherenkov effect 2010 is when a charged particle travelling at faster than the velocity of light meets its inevitable . . .
After Verlaine 2009 after many years the poet and his lover reunite she hands him an oar and he slips into. . .
for Adrienne 2009 17.08.09 do you hear that sound? a very distant bell an alarm in another room - muffled human . . .
LZ77 2009 how blue is the sky[8,2]oday as[25,6][3,2] my heart or a[16,1]berry pie, [16,2] [27,8] when i s. . .
only read this if you are drunk 2009 if you are drunk as so am i then HURRAH! we are friends I N ST A N T L Y i would like to say. . .
Socrates soc 2009 ninib did bumsex with job job did bumsex with joshua joshua did bumsex with david david did bum. . .
Suicide note of the flawed poet 2009 sorry everyone but i'm taking the easy option - the path to self destruction i am addicte. . .
the apple or the sphere 2009 now that you have seen - which describes that place to you? the apple or the sphere? self conta. . .
The light at the end of the tunnel 2009 I lie on the floor describing something... "some people don't see the light at the end of the t. . .
The Pact 2009 we will all bleed to death that is our shared history i will get my teeth smashed out that girl. . .
the three kinds of poem 2009 some poems are formed in stillness and take a crystalline form brittle - they cannot be touched . . .
This is Immortality 2009 i emerged from the hollow of voices and trickled down into the lap of maya there i lay and watch. . .
Toolbox 2009 it's the first thing in the morning, i've just come down to work and i catch a comma, and some a. . .
A Speckled Stone 2008 a speckled stone round as the moon is balanced on the temple gate under that tree lies the . . .
after the apology 2008 a bird in the sky lifts my heart cloud filaments tumble and grow misshapen it is summer my ey. . .
Anti-poem 2008 i hate poetry most of it not that i've read much tired of tired words lying on the page tr. . .
Bullet 2008 of course i want you if i didn't want you i wouldn't be writing piss so get this down your throa. . .
Cat tactics 2008 Cat tactics Ziggy mews and stares at me the biscuits are in his bowl he only just came in . . .
Cigarette 2008 when i imbibe the ash of a flicker of coal wrapped in leaf mixed in air my whole joy explode. . .
Close the Book 2008 so close the book the one that demands your attention go outside stoke the firepit & burn thos. . .
Devil in the Vine 2008 there is a devil in the vine: that is so but let us not examine the devil? I believe it is a fri. . .
Dharma Wheel 2008 at first inkling of 'something else' i pull a zen pome off the shelf to cut apart the norma. . .
Gloamings 21-26 2008 after many years - it revisit. the Lonely. the Need. .hold my head under because. . .
Handsback 2008 handsback range of hills form a claw with ivory veins hairs musk stick eucalypt trunks gro. . .
Instant Fantasy 2008 These are not all my own work i have borrowed deeply from time and owe much to the wind that bl. . .
Pismire 2008 you can perch on her all you insects that consider her tasty or divine and she’ll not swat you. . .
Poet is the Poor Artist 2008 poet is the poor artist of this date and time: it only costs some pen and ink to make a little . . .
Prawn Connoisseur 2008 dry as the mouth of ied piranhas, their asses easily famish the plywood brain autoism, rude. . .
Rotten Autumn 2008 Rotten autumn moved into buggery winter gave way to sodden spring and an unbearable summe. . .
The Pear is Life 2008 examine the pear how does it strike you? what could it be likened to? take a bite what has cha. . .
To a distant unnamed galaxy 2008 ROWAN PUTS HIS WATER CUP ON THE CATALOGUE OF GALAXIES IN WHICH YOU FAR DOWN THE LIST ON PAGE . . .
Was a Bear 2008 in an envy was a bear who bore an hive out of there and released the beastings everywhere. . .
Astrolabe 2007 I calculate a peanut that is the sun sits fathoms apart from roving Jupiter, a speck pummellin. . .
Bean 2007 you and me poo and wee endless embalming you with nappy bouncing knee make you happy you a. . .
Braided Ham 2007 Shooting off into the dark art chart part with a lanky lumberjack vagabond nose in a blue jinxed. . .
Byronic Urge 2007 I found a scrap of paper, on which was written: Byronic urge to which I think I murmured . . .
Deluge 2007 that look in your eye head tracing little circles like a corkscrewing ash seed that crooked sm. . .
Desire Only Silence 2007 (Reflection on verse 517, Guru Vachaka Kovai) How true you are to say - 'Desire only . . .
For My Love 2007 My Love said "why don't you write poems for me?" "I don't know" I said, "It feels too personal". . .
Forkword 2007 all us egoists writing forkword tryin' to pick the plate for a feelin' we had we try to make a. . .
Grandpa 2007 old tooled hand and nail leather S T R A P & sharp KNIFE! I think of all the things you man. . .
Heard a Bird 2007 heard a bird murder | in the park just after dark hoped you were not | up to it heard a bird. . .
Morning Cat Squeak 2007 You want to go out but it’s raining so how about we give you a little fish? no. Morning cat. . .
Notes of Spring 2007 the wind of spring is all we hope for summer breath brought calamity and hooping songs of death . . .
Our Planet 2007 is a seed and the yellow sun has cracked it into a furze of malt all our pallid faces the t. . .
Prayer from the Terrapolis 2007 {Terrapolis; tεrəpəlIs, n. A city that covers the Earth.} come with me my. . .
Shambo the Cow 2007 Shambo, you were the life. What price, the cud? the soft moo? a piece of you? Yoked and towed . . .
Shipley Valley Afternoon 2007 In the silly still air; bird sounds from a speck of dust suspended in the stone library almi. . .
Six fish (five alive and one dead) 2007 swim i am immature in blue my eyes a speck that time and science explore field of reed i l. . .
The Game 2007 Can I bring a . . . ? snow goanna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . no goose down . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Lobe 2007 tigers and bathers crescent over water in an ebon pool a peacock in prison in a pen of peah. . .
Thursday Song 2007 life is not a line to live from end to end life is but a canvas upon our brush to wend life . . .
Trying to Start the Cat 2007 the kitten won’t play today Rose strokes it and fires the rumble tum but Peter’s out a leap – a. . .
Candelabra 2006 Pinpricks in the void You quiver and I arrive Glowing candelabra. . .
Easier Than Breathing 2006 You didn't want to use words but when pressed - That word that brings silence home you showe. . .
French Dream 2006 my #1 favourite French madhouse croissant-aree brings unlimited limitless happiness to me j. . .
Tomato 2006 Like a forest fire boys quietly as the cows come home endure the sun on their backs make mud. . .
Turiya 2006 let the eye close without and open within knowing nothing I visit sleep and become happy gunned. . .
You 2006 Only only only only Be a great cream|monster|design I am over ovary revelry You loon dick. . .
Autumn Towers 2005 From a tower, all the plane leaves like swastikas are kicked off into loose piles - like your kni. . .
Believe 2005 Believe in me They say there is no Justice I heard about truth from a friend He got it from a s. . .
Broken Eye 2005 Did you see the sun this morning? it was a blood clot on the horizon - it really was watery like. . .
Chicken Dog 2005 An obiturary for the bone which interested Chicken Dog Riding on the bus one day I look. . .
Iapetos 2005 Iapetos opens his book to the green page marked by an ostrich feather and begins to write S. . .
Leave the Heart 2005 Take away my hands So I may not meddle But leave my heart So I may feel Take away my eyes S. . .
New Dogma 2005 Don’t rhyme too much Don’t at metaphor clutch Don’t start lines with capitals Don’t dwell on . . .
Not Knowing Where I Was (I Knew Where I Was) 2005 not knowing where I was I suddenly knew where I was (with you) the moon in my heart fell u. . .
Overheard in a Temple 2005 The voyage is joyful That takes me to you But how heavy is the creaking world With its burnt tr. . .
Reports of a Disturbance in the Heart 2005 A loose tongue spinning rhymes reports of a disturbance in the heart the culprits leave images . . .
School of the Unintelligible Media 2005 At a school both old and new Bachelors of the Unintelligible Media are we In suspension of disbe. . .
Souls of the CCP 2005 Finally going over the content of suburbia I uncover a cricket in the drain-pipe under the man-h. . .
The Lament of a Wine Taster 2005 And holding Syrah's wine up to this nose I gently swilled to to and fro the cup Then slurped it . . .
Three Limericks 2005 There once was a preciousest Ning Who did ever the cleverest thing She had a great spasm While . . .
An Evil Night 1998 downed hemisphere of orange then the music and the magic started turning over me into thought wo. . .
Cut Rose 1998 Cut rose lit with shadows hovering near, a flickering fire thin smokes, incensed curl and ripp. . .
Days Days Days 1998 days, days, days, days, days, days, daze the past seems dead, the future an old promise I cross . . .
Fairy Story 1998 There is a sort of pain in not knowing Relieved by? Knowing and the odd crumpet So it is Th. . .
For my Solid Pleasure 1998 for my solid pleasure I strike the mug with finger nails the sound merging with the rumble of . . .
Let Op! Drempels 1998 The ink itself says more for truth than any words Outside it rains, but in here it is warm Becau. . .
Poem of the Embryo 1998 Caverned in this small reddish room I wish I didn’t have to leave. I curve my back, and press it. . .
Porpoise 1998 Seek and you will find - Your life's porpoise! Sleek black and fat She is hidden somewhere Dee. . .
Reflection on Twenty Years 1998 Disconnected experiences Like bites of a meal Served and digested together So many portions o. . .
The Swallow 1998 Little bony scrotum perched in a muddy seat patiently awaiting another visit from the feathery . . .
This Day, 28th perhaps 1998 Two white oxen walk past The big trees shiver Crusty bread sits warmly in me And some slight op. . .
Various Poisons 1998 Various poisons have given reality a twist tweaked it into high peaks or bathed it in light nec. . .
Venice Again 1998 When it all sings me to some spot be happy with the lot Venice is my womb a wiggly coffee ro. . .
What to do? 1998 what to do? in love with you! you know there is some sorcery in it musky nettled magic that I. . .
Dialogue at the Beginning of time 1997 Woman - Here please accept this gift. Man - What gift is this? Woman -
that is all 1997 reading my books gazing at the new leaves on the old trees wand'ring through the crammed stree. . .
the artist 1997 one must be an artist to affect his own transformation but he must paint from within follow n. . .



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