Bus stop

Every morning leaving
On time to the skip
Of my feet
Pulling away cartoon TV
Standing six feet away
Millenia in social decree

Lemon sherbet bomb
Milk shakes
Redskins

Sending my mind in a spin
Looking through me
Invisible
Grimace and grin
Leaving words behind
In the dust
Words never heard before

Something about
Let's be friends

Bubble O Bill
Gaytime
Icy pole

Chasing up and down
Stares worlds unknown
Giggle till your sides
Hurt eyes leaving
Tummy aches
Green chip fries
Tears down cheeks

She makes me laugh
No matter what she says

Somehow if my cool I keep
Sticking around
Can't shake me
Holding my breath while
The big girls
Rate me

Paranormal

Whether awake or asleep
A parallel reality
Woven from memory
Laced with dreams

Evades my spaces
Empty rooms
With music
On repeat

Behind closed eyes
Her face reminds me
Promises only keep
When stored safely

Entertaining
All kinds of things
Foreseeable future
Down by the sea

Takes my willing heart
On much needed holiday
While planting seeds
To grow all around me

Tale of two towns

Time for new faces
Anticipated opening
Green spaces push
Up from soaking rains

Never hesitating
To greet new day
As if reborn
How can we?

One absorbs everyone
Street skate innocents
Remark on my blooms
Pruning rosehips

One wills to muster
A turn of the eye
Sideways remarking
On the weather

Real as concrete grey
Silverlining clouds
Through my hair
Wise highlights

Another covering
Dousing authenticity
New shoots recovered
To appear as one
Young forever
Derwent River, Lower Sandy Bay, lutruwita / Tasmania

It’s a little bit funny

Ethical nature
To draw one out
Protect from predators
When they hide
On the inside
Under rocks
Not out open

How easy to mistake
To mimic a threat
For safety
But scare away
Own mate

Funny how I know
When I decide to
Stop chasing
With words
That'll be the day
You turn around
In the heavy silence
Between us
Where only smiles
Are found

By an inch

Tell her that you love her
If not with words
Any other thing
Without a doubt
Most important
Need to know
Life or death
By an inch
Holding one
Away from cliff
Sudden drop away
To vast ocean
Of loneliness
Tell her simply
For vast open sky
Meets horizon
High and deep
Where love consumes
Our solitude
We float away
To worlds unknown
Forever
kunanyi / Mt Wellington

Only way

A multiverse grows 
Out and beyond
Over and within
Unexplainable

To the naked eye
One only sees a light
A smile a look
A gracious word or two

The only way I know
How to love you
Is in spacious place
Wide open spaces

Long learnings ago
I hoped for one
To explore the cavern
Find the open door

My mind is endlessly
Travelling back forth
But pinpoints perfectly
On one such as yourself
Pterostylis decurva