About aperture

Living on the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Narrating life through poetry and photography.

We found a cave

Posted on December 8, 2024 by aperture

Respect before love
As finding a cave
Acknowledging 
The ancients

Love afore respect
A sinkhole lake
Delivering
The unmaking

*Trowutta Arch, Takayna / Tarkine Tasmania*

Letting go

Posted on December 8, 2024 by aperture

All the pretty shiny
People I collected
Never do well as 
A trophy on the shelf
Letting go the fragile
Outer homes we grew
While tossed about 
Turbulent ocean 
Desist the breaking tide
Bay of quiet captures
Wide eyed ones
Hoping to close them
For a while

Ascribe greatness

Posted on December 4, 2024 by aperture

The world contained
Some useful frames
For understanding 
Evolution 

A deep scientific wariness
Of ascribing human emotions 
To other species

More than one whale biologist 
Believe these species 
Feel love more
Than humans

- quote from 'Why are we like this: an evolutionary search for life's big answers' by Zoe Kean, New South, 2024.

Fossils at Sticks and Stones, Shells and Bones, Stanley Tasmania

The journey to being

Posted on November 25, 2024 by aperture

Wanton attention
Deprives one of pride
Dignity a tiny blossom
Expecting spring gale
To deflower her

The unmaking of tolerable
Rewriting scripts that
Never left the wastebasket
Fine tuning lyrics
To write my heart song to

We were always wanting
On the journey to being seen

Night falls

Posted on November 23, 2024 by aperture

With great fanfare

Contagious

Posted on November 21, 2024 by aperture

Do I dare dwell
Night and day
Sacrifice lesser thoughts
For prized noble insights 
Into some or other
Look, word, a smile
Given to me by one adored
Once upon a time...

I do dare
Forgive me if words
Do drag on
But I am of the mind
That love, a cure-all
Conntagion runs through 
Generations 

If these words and purest thoughts
Never reach her ears
For certain a chance to
Float about for many
Hundreds of years
Is that not how 
I caught it first 
From a blue green eye
Locked on mine - but once

In your own time

Posted on November 18, 2024 by aperture

Poured out like an offering
Waterfall, infinity pool
In the alpine summit
Of glacial paced healing
From losing all held dear
That and more
Saying goodbye took time
Through thousands of moments
Admired over and over
Letting go means allowing
Rapids take you forward 
Knowing you have the strength
To stay afloat
Survive another capsize
Walk away into the wilderness 
Once more

Scent

Posted on November 12, 2024 by aperture

Sweetest scent
Evoked from most
Pungent stench
Of the earth

Take note

Ask me again

Posted on November 10, 2024 by aperture

Won't you?
Life no longer
Violet crumble 
In my hands
If only
Sweet honeycomb
Chocolate mess
Ask me over
After work
Take the ticket 
To the show
Now state walls
Not a giant mask
Anymore
Storm blows over
World conjures another 
Ask me again 
For someone to hold