Many international visitors came 

to the mathematics department on study leave the secretary told me of one...

They are here in hundreds of thousands

padlocks with names inscribed or printed bold in light-fast ink. We imagine couples pledging...

Saying goodbye at the train on his last visit to Brisbane

I remember my father fixing me with steely eyes, as if he were...

Frequently I pause at a regenerating patch of bushland seeded

 with surface soil from a not far distant forest and guess at the identity...

first I saw the dog then the form of a man threading its way noiselessly through the close-packed forest of gym machines...

The tub in our shared bathroom would have a waterline rim of grease and flakes of black skin if he bathed before me...

Enveloped tightly in food

mingled with indigestible sand.

Eat, the only way to move...

In general, none of the things with a given natural property can be trained to acquire another. Aristotle Ethics Book 2, Ch. 1

While I’m sitting at the kitchen table, she comes bustling through...

The sky is always dark and heavy as a stone, the streetscape is unlit,    

inhabitants, it seems, have no desire 

to have it any other way;   

Were I buried unconscious, 

face downward, on waking I 

would think the sky below me, 

for normally people are 

buried with respect, face up...

While we supped the soup, my mind was wandering as usual, only fragments of conversation catching my attention...

Body still, tense, only his

eyes danced with the fly until 

it paused. Too fast to follow,

his cupped hand swept like a swift