Someone

Posted on December 12, 2024 by aperture

Every adventurer
Long absent wanderer
Climbs karst summits
Ride across Americas
Walk entire length of it
Eventually desires
Someone to come home to

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

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

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

Posted on November 9, 2024 by aperture

Fake tears fall

From tiny bottle

Until real ones come

Tell the bees

Posted on November 4, 2024 by aperture

May the goodwoman
Blaze the trail
To the honey box
Knock gently twice
Tell the bees 
The whisperer is gone
May they carry on

Sound the gong

Posted on November 3, 2024 by aperture

Plausible
Plot twists down slinky pole
Like ivy gone wild
Parched dry stone wall

Tips stretch limbs
A divining stick
Precious lick of droplet
Curtain falls

Cool shower soothes
Sting of unseasonal
Summer burst
How to say, thirsty, is all

Ivy, though clinging,  choking kind
Something renaissance about it
Ivy league, why?

Look down from chest to feet
All that hides between 
Not so incongruous are we?
Tower bell strikes harmoniously

Synonym of ceremony
Meringue gown falls
Layers of royal icing kind
Not my style anymore

Since dawn erupted 
Relentlessly upon eyelids
Call to arms silenced
Love does a number on us all

Down to only one
Sound the gong