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Poems, prose, and observations

  • Start Here

    Start Here

    Begin here: three entry poems — system-voice, memory, and childhood reflection — opening the counter/field.

    11 August 2025
    Prose
  • From the notebook: Oars

    From the notebook: Oars

    Hi all, just a little announcement: counter/field has a new posting schedule. Poems will be posted weekly On wednesdays at 10pm AEST. On Saturdays at 10am AEST, I’ll do a feature post and maybe an update. The update this week is that the blog is doing very well, and that I’m going to try to…

    25 October 2025
    Prose
  • The Beforetimes

    The Beforetimes

    In the cooking room, the kettle begins to sing, and her voice answers — calling a name I no longer trust belongs to me.

    22 October 2025
    Poetry
  • Chasing Clouds in the Burrow

    Chasing Clouds in the Burrow

    After the day’s heat, a jazz singer colours the evening air turquoise, a man inhales from a blue cylinder, and a dog dances after smoke on Boundary Street.

    20 October 2025
    Poetry
  • The Night Is Young

    The Night Is Young

    Evening settles over the river; friends laugh on the damp grass. Memory hovers—half-forgotten, half-desired—like a country glimpsed in fading light.

    14 October 2025
    Poetry
  • Under the Bridge

    Under the Bridge

    The damp comes off the river, seeping into clothing, and the sodium light struggles under the bridge’s arc. When the curlew’s wail rises with the storm, the night strikes its bargain with the river, and silence follows

    2 October 2025
    Poetry
  • Whalesong

    Whalesong

    A reflective poem about whales suspended in air, memory, and the haunting echo of whalesong in a concrete tunnel.

    30 September 2025
    Poetry
  • Bitch; a reflection.

    Bitch; a reflection.

    A layered reflection on loyalty, exposure, and refusal: Carolyn Kizer’s “Bitch” occluded beneath anatomical engraving, pop-lyric fragments, and a haunting Dorthia Cotterell lyric.

    28 September 2025
    Poetry
  • Sodium Zone

    Sodium Zone

    City bridge after hours: mattress, tent, algae-slick rocks. The light cuts, metal scrapes, light returns—and the scene holds.

    26 September 2025
    Poetry
  • Little Hooks

    Little Hooks

    A poem of moons and tides, of memory’s splinters and small betrayals that lodge like hooks, refusing to leave.

    24 September 2025
    Poetry
  • Compliance is Efficiency

    A doctrine-voice poem where the system audits, cascades, and moves non-performing units below grade—cold recursion to a chilling clinch.

    18 September 2025
    Poetry
  • Morning River Notes

    Morning River Notes

    Four haiku river poems

    18 September 2025
    Poetry
  • A Tiny Deity

    A Tiny Deity

    A poem set at the river’s edge in spring, a child lifts fruit into sunlight—an ordinary act that becomes creation, renewal, and wonder.

    17 September 2025
    Poetry
  • Day-Possum

    Day-Possum

    A ringtail possum scurries along the powerline at noon, drawn out of hiding by mango scent — a stillness poem of summer abundance.

    12 September 2025
    Poetry
  • Government Brain Serums Hidden In Street Signs Are Controlling The Schoolteachers

    A paranoia-spiral poem: dog walkers, red leashes, barcodes, and the system that wants your eyes.

    10 September 2025
    Poetry
  • The Letter

    A quiet stillness poem: a woman hesitates before an unopened envelope as rain and silence stretch.

    5 September 2025
    Poetry
  • A Process for the Creation of a Revenant

    A ritual poem of death and rebirth, where incantation speaks to life, silence, and the border in-between.

    3 September 2025
    Poetry
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