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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
  • 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

    In the concrete tunnel between the library and the theatre, fibreglass whales hang from steel cables, their recorded song groaning through the space. At night it becomes a gauntlet. But today, another kind of song

    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 revenant’s closing line.

    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

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

    24 September 2025
    Poetry
  • September Roundup

    There’s a new poem today, by the way: ‘Little Hooks’ September has been a turning point. The blog passed its highest month on record, and more than a hundred readers are now following along. A special thank you to all the new subscribers — welcome, and I hope you find something here to enjoy, or…

    24 September 2025
    Prose
  • 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

    Four haiku river poems

    18 September 2025
    Poetry
  • 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

    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
  • The Oars, Forgotten

    An observational poem: rowers adrift mid-river, oars forgotten, a magpie watching in the afternoon stillness.

    30 August 2025
    Poetry
  • Survival is Entropy

    A system-voice poem where doctrine fractures, survival.exe and order.exe looping toward collapse.

    27 August 2025
    Poetry
  • Unworded

    A miniature stillness poem: broken chair, empty box, silence heavier than speech, words withheld.

    22 August 2025
    Poetry
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