how to lick your foe (Herald Sun 25.04.06)

How to lick your foe
ghosts walk to honour old debt
new life in old clothes
from veils to scarfs
jump, then a thump
‘worse than Tracy’
lock up your windows…
I’m a parent tired of your advice
baby and I alone
1700 incidents… but ‘nothing serious’
last words from a happy soldier


Herald Sun 25.04.06
[4, 7, 5, 11, 15, 6, 11, 18, 19, 15, 5]

tsars from stars (The Age 25.04.06)

sorting tsars from stars
in the name of the fathers
sowing the seeds for a new lone pine
challenge over fruit
like trying to catch fog
this is no day for posturing
a noble brand of frenetic humour
to confound and delight
farmers ask for alternative to petrol
wallaby milk packs an unexpected wallop
‘back to lying in front of bulldozers’


The Age 25.04.06
[19, 1, 2, 2, 14, 13, 15, 14, 6, 12, 5]