Lizz Murphy - # 320: Head XLII. it had been in the weather

Media: Oil pastel & found text. Size: A6.

Lizz Murphy - Poem 306: sunshine

Jan Mellinson steel sculpture (detail) in Pivotal at Belconnen Art Centre

sunshine

the crowded

footpath

outdoor

umbrellas sway

floating bird

shovels

bacon and eggs

porky legs 

Lizz Murphy - Post 274: Head xi. just moving in the wind. I

Media: Oil pastels, found text on paper. Size A6.

Lizz Murphy - Poem 235: How computers shape our feelings (12) - Motherboards

GRIEF

How horses point their rumps to the weather

How cancer can be confused with grief

How a motherboard is declared ‘dead on arrival’

Lizz Murphy - Poem 200: Lilt xv. Where the leaves are silent

LILT xv.

Lizz Murphy - Poem 197: Conundrums

Lizz Murphy - Poem 167: after Drysdale (more bloody weather)

The desert is a gnawed carcass

Always good drying weather

after a Drysdale painting (and with thanks to a Sarah Rice workshop)

Lizz Murphy - Poem 162: Slant

SLANT

Through diagonal glass

red splash beyond lake grey

walking on the green

Inside the artist describes

her lacework as fanned

I see lungs

cicada threaded

Lizz Murphy - Poem 161: Punctual weather (for Susan Hawthorne)

PUNCTUAL WEATHER

For Susan Hawthorne and her #143 Another Weather Poem

Pastures a green wash

Rains a month late

Frosts on time

nip each new blade

like sheep teeth

hard as the oncoming winter