Can't turn round
Nor go back
Burke and Wills track
Pride takes us on

Spreading sun 
Wind and rain
Spreading seeds
Some in vain

Quiet resting place
Long nourished 
Always known
Local natives
Wildlife grown

Is such a place
For a wild exotic
Blown in
From afar

Do you know where you are?

She's not here
Not bodily form
Her clock stopped
It's all wrong

In our eyes, ears, heart, memories...
She lives

If she could speak
Would she agree
Would she approve
Of me?

Wainwright exhibit, TMAG

William Walker/ Beattie Collection. TMAG.

This too shall pass

Don't give it all away
Save yourself for later

Studio Anna Marrickville, (Karel Jungvirt, Toni Coles)

http://www.detached.com.au/ecology-studies

'Remember that you must live'

Don't let another minute go by
Thoughts of you
Fill my days and nights
A peace, a smile
A laugh, a cry
The pain is pleasurable to the naked eye
Though a hunger grows inside
There is no other way to win
But to give in

Therein a deep hushed tone I know
A wisdom note sings
When she speaks to me
Something needed, warned and heeded
Underlining it
Take note, it rolls round
In my mind for a time
-Floating in the night air like a firebug on a tropical breeze
Teasing my attention from stares and slowing streams 
All the daily races
Flit and float-
Until the moment when I grasp it joyfully

Cures for ills
Stomach for thrills
Food for thought
None have taught
Sound for silence

A boat for my island