6. Beachcomber
Transgenic Pigs
Sheet Music
Myth & Mariolatry
Stork
Unmanned
Braidwood
Modern Love
Brilliant Losers
Hotel Diligencias
Wardrobe Drinkers
Girl. Gold. Boat
Domestic Pack Shots
1. The Gays Next Door
2. Working Hot
3. Hooking For Jesus
4. The Priest Across The Lane
5. Corruption Is Glorified Mateship
6. Inner City Camping Blues
Tarts & Takeaways
Who Killed Brett Whiteley
Sugarbag Carpenter
Aunty Eve
Harold Lloyd
Conrad & Wells & Co.
Hoppalong Cassidy
Bob Orr
Dave Spencer
You Dont Remember Dying
Graham Clifford
Bruno Lawrence
The Still Watches

Poets have wrongd poor storms: such days are best;
They purge the air without, within the breast.

George Herbert

Cultural Misappropriation

is that what I hear you cry, citizen?
If a delph-glazed moon with its O so
delicate pattern pans over Holland, flat as
a tack, it also comes by way of the
Antarctic circle right to your doorstep
in equal measure. If the sun clamps
its golden torque on mosque or synagogue, pa,
cathedral or sacred site, does this endorse
any one people over another? Is it your wish
to head off the cultural bandits at the
historical impasse, citizen, by placing a
patent on your mana? Beware the polemicists
who define and so divide, who aggregate
authority unto self where before lay none.
Symbol becomes the circumference of
time & custom. It is not the thing itself,
but the beautiful echo of a peoples harmonic
which cannot be bounded nor weakened.
Here lies the camouflage that protects the
ancient matrix, the silent memory of our
bloods journey & sound leads you to it.

Word Maps

1. Down By The River

Of the brain, mushroom shaped as
bomb blast, we project the image to
fact; up river from the torrent,
amongst the calmness of boulders, the
angler shadow-casts looping
the steady surface for the archetypal
fish whose leapt arch anticipates t
but the headwaters are held greyly
back by a concrete-net on this
dappled and uncaptured urban afternoon.
He deftly flicks & spools back and
forth from channel to channel.

2. National Park Holiday

If you go into the woods
today you will be part of a task
force moving in line-formation.
You will allow that the plastic yellow
tape which cordons off select
areas does not imply a Sacred Grove.
If you go i