Railway sketch
Railway station in a country town, flagstones wide, dark and wet with rain. Cast iron bolts suffocated by thick beige …
writing
1st draft extract #1
I unloaded our little camping stove, which was dented and covered in spatterings of dried tomato sauce and dust, and banged …
Abortion at 19
Every time you hiccup it sounds like I’ve pulled the plug on the heroine of a horror flick just as …
Mystery
I wanted to write simply words that made sense, persistent as grime under fingernails, or ingrained as dirt in callouses of …
I’m more concerned with
whether or not I’m a good lover. I’m more concerned with whether or not I’m a good friend. I’m more …
Old Dog Love
Excuse me, would you accept this? The card is attached to a thick brown arm cut with a heavy silver …
As Is
I fumble for the USB jack, and for the keys. Everything is washed in cool light. Immediately my mug is …
The Noise of the Clock
Phone screen like a drought plain, like a thousand smacked mouths and split lips run in rivers rushing at the …
Milk Run
The car entered the lot moving slowly, its weight worked at the loose stones, tonnes of steel composed by engineers …
Yard
A white picket fence half painted, an open own mixed paint pot no label, tin, ringed grooves, copper colour rust …
CHECKMATE
Playing chess; I feel human, in the animal sense, I feel my tendons grinding and stretching- I am predictable, my …
GOOD MORNING
Everyone is on the scale, I’m told and that’s enough- sometimes contact with an eye scolds like a plate hot …
Portrait of a Teepee
mmn Maccas? 8.41 Sunday morning, Southern Australia. Inside it is hot and dark. The sun here is like an aggressive …
CHRISTMAS EVE 1996
Years ago I heard him- I swear I heard him I swear I heard the brass bells dull and grey …
DO YOU REMEMBER
Do you remember the soles of my feet saluting the sky? Do you remember when I kicked the moon with everything …
MISSING
She had come this far, against the odds, tottered down the long, wide road where she walked alone amongst the …
LIMITLESS
The fine hairs that trace her temple have snatched the weak radiance from up above, like a school of shattered pearls in tune …
EVERY MOMENT
I spied it in your eyes, caught grey and wistful and dangerous spluttering I pulled, pulled as if trying to …
CONFETTI
One less face at a leaving do, two fewer eyes to blithely scan the epigram ‘you’ll be missed’ later, the …
