Empire

The Passover.

no neighbours were warned
the angel of death passes
painted blood on door

Australia Day

Redcoats raped children
Bones buried in waterholes
Champagne is half price

Deebing Creek

Past shining steel and glass
 Children buried in mass graves
Where paper daisies grow

Femicide

Love even harder
Puny hateful bodies shrink
From our very touch

terror of our wombs
out of the pomegranate
springs the Pegasus

Grandma said to me
Please come closer little girl
Then she bared her teeth

she will guide the way
through the garbage dump of time
where he hid her bones

I stretch out my legs
And gaze at universes
Inside a tear drop

Red dragonflies
When I first met you
You said you would keep me safe
Then you never did.

Paramilitary
Intent on killing brown kids
To make their own rich

with a song and dance
the demise of oligarchs
benefits us all.

Consultancy

Desert meets the sea
Black smoke haze from factories
He came to shake my hand

Big smile full of teeth
Heart beats like a disco ball
Lies told in morse cod

boss man cracks his whip
sing it to me like Joe Hill
let the forest speak

No gods no masters
Only cretins celebrate
Crackers on the whip

Wildflowers will grow
Around a pole with no flag
It’s revolution.

when I was at school
they warned us about quicksand
now the fascists reign.

A 5 year old child
They point a gun at his head
As generals gloat

Black hawks by Boeing
Strafe West Papuan villages
Raise the morning star

Karoline Leavitte
bombing boats offshore
 war is legalised murder
we followed the law

Bang bang you are dead
Stars and stripes are forever
Wars are for winning

truth is important
all lies are convenient
prolonging the end

The greedy old King
All he touched turns to gold
Destroying the world

waterfalls of light
leave the cities smoke behind
Gaze into wolves eyes

n the fog of war
A green fern unfurls a frond
rain brings a release

Angels in disguise
World of cathedrals and ants
Flick them to the ground

Whimsy

Even when she’s mad
Spitting rats and white flowers
I’ll say long live love

hear the rocks sing
Harmonies from the great depths
Hear them trickle up.

Creak go the floorboards
What kind of spirit is that
Passing by my door?

where the earth and sky meet
I married the black devil
sitting in the tree

The clouds crack open
hiding planets from the earth,
drinking the cruel moon

watch wings unfold
the cicada is my muse
catching dragonflies

When I was a child
I could fly up to the clouds
How big I’ve become

My moral compass broke
The ship in my heart can steer
it finds the short cuts.

alchemical fire
burn the dead wood of my soul
turn me to grey ash

I climbed to the roof
to meet the flying witches
cackle up a storm

infinite as love
the spirit of the stairwell
haunting me again

Childhood injuries
Faeries tickle me awake
To wash in the dew.

The curtains open
the new moon comes quietly
lighting up my dreams

Every sentence lies.
Let the rain fall on your skin
Soak you to the bone

Dance untravelled paths
To sing the unlooked for things
Through unopened doors

Who interprets dreams
A faery in a fish tank
A bell in a book.

My heart is stained glass
 A cathedral in the woods
Reflecting the sun

After the love lost
I live in anamnesis
To be whole again

The eye of the heart
Breathing in the songs of stars
To sing down the moon

A sea monster’s born
Current takes them to a place
Of the brightest blue.

It’s raining flowers
The spirit leaves me behind
Symphonies linger

feel you around
Dancing star in the sky
Love expands my soul

Sing me the sad songs
songs that make you believe in
worlds where we exist

waiting for rainbows
the poet sits on a rug
Neither here nor there.

Waves crash intensely
Stingrays sing a mournful tune
Making gypsies cry

Waves crash intensely
Stingrays dance a mournful dance
Sunlight trickles down.

Three keys for three doors
diving into blackest voids
 just to catch a spark

on a dark blue sky
the crow gave me a red thread
to colour the moon

wading through the fog
the darkness devoured me
moonlight stole my heart

watching wings unfold t
he cicada is my muse
shedding my old skin

communing with crows
 to learn the secrets of loss
(the) hope of being found

The intangible
Matter meets antimatter
Just to touch a dream

the magicians lie
draw a golden penumbra
circle round the moon

how long did I lie
gazing up at the night sky
bones swallowing earth?

How they tried to hide
The guilty fled the gavel
bones sang in the dark

4 am sky blue
Building something magical
With diminished 5ths

cats out on a ledge
frightened by the sight of me
cats out of the bag

got the running shoes
on my way through thick and thin
do not mince my words

Defamation

Everything is hate
black stripe painted over eyes
truth and lies the same

Nothing personal
Tick the box that boxes tick
Watch the minute hand

yes I’m blocking you
way out of my element
Proudly in the way.

Ecology

Shaking hands struggle
People are so wonderful
Complicated scents

A tree branch, a ship
Do I have to spell it out?
It’s all connected

it says break the glass
Let it fall back into sand
stolen from the sea

pregnant with goodbyes s
quare suitcase promises me
they’re already gone

At the waterhole
the true history of this place
bubbles underneath

Colours

Cool flames blue and green
May I stay here in brown eyes
You give white flowers

Tears fall to the ground
the sacredness of nature
And we destroy her.