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Warning for developing minds: this site contains a few poems that use 'swear' words or relate to sex or other 'adult themes'.
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Cycle

2014-12-202010-06-04

The dawn seeps through fissures,
Smiles into new blue air.
The day gathers itself,
Consumes itself,
Slows.

The evening whistles with glamour,
Glistens with growing opulence.
The night gleams blackly,
Folds softly,
Waits.

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      • ▿1986-90
        • 5 Star
        • I wish I had a place to go
        • a.m.
        • An Apricot Tart
        • Beatles Lie Shattered
        • Billboard Girl
        • Cycle
        • Dark City
        • untitled (‘I’m the daughter, so I’ll get the mortgage’)
        • Define
        • Discovery
        • Doing It Again, 1988
        • untitled (‘I drove to your father’s smoke-stale house’)
        • I Want to Climb Inside your TV
        • In Tow
        • Lost
        • untitled (‘I believed in a love’)
        • Untitled girl poem
        • Missing (The dragging hunger)
        • Night Walk
        • Observation, Winter 1990
        • One-dose OD
        • Snap
        • Song
        • Like Spacecraft
        • Truth Eyes
        • Wink
        • March 12
      • ▹1991-95
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      • ▹2003-10, send
      • ▹2007+, connect
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      • ▹2013+, wait
      • ▹2015+, ashes
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        • owl thinking
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        • The hanging fronds of my tree
        • respect
        • Liller
        • halfway
        • Virid
        • a lark
        • “What are ya?”
        • Gripping the bark
        • sunflower
        • When you dance
        • am I not?
        • Christmas e-card 2009
        • Christmas card poem 2008
        • 13 February 2009, Perth Hills
        • Foxy Lady
        • The magpie
        • Wrinkled winter apple
        • on the white wind
        • every day
        • offset
        • word map 2
        • Nameless
        • Inside yourself…
        • Go
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        • If the rain
        • Heaven is
        • One more voice
        • Centred
        • Would you like some soup?
        • The fisherwoman
        • Sling
        • Breastfeeding a Four-Month-Old
        • Camping
        • ignons
        • karri tree
        • Lawn
        • Willy Wagtail
        • Cycle
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