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Friday, January 1, 2016
Sarah St Vincent Welch #1 - Half Moon Bay
Half Moon Bay
on the last day
we waded out
out through the bay
to Cerberus's
hulk
I find you singing
of flight and air
clouds
mazed cities
quiet kitchens
statues and stars
your gifts
our kitchen this morning
cracks with stories
(none mine)
is built again
as the fiddle practices
over us all
in the old year's night
in blue violent haze
so many people waded back
waded back
through the bay
to me
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Sarah St Vincent Welch #341 Project 366
Cerberus in sight
the new old year’s night
it began in Half Moon Bay
the hulk submerged
we dived
it began in Half Moon Bay
the hulk submerged
we dived
a year marked each day
cheek to the moon’s phase
poet’s song I listened
when I woke
slept
artist’s brush and light’s captured
language’s recasting
shimmering in the crucible
sunset
we wade and swim
days and nights counting in
Sunday, January 3, 2016
Lizz Murphy #3 — Greyhounds Make Great Pets (after Sarah St Vincent Welch)
Greyhounds make great pets
A response to 'Half Moon Bay' by Sarah St Vincent Welch
Legs like risen loaves of bread
our heads lolling at the speeding
landscape not taking in the all brown
The odd tree is a thumb swell of khaki
we yearn for an old man kangaroo
an emu a camel a highway robbery
some re-run of history get another
air-con breakdown Someone else’s
road trip reminds me of this and the
coach line I will never travel with again
I am now thinking of greyhound racing
and the increasing number of greyhounds
out walking the
elegant arc of them
lovingly re-homed instead of you know
what still they have that forlorn mien
A guy on a TV ad confesses to his young
wife I curse
she is not your mother so
anyway okay they’ve got a quick loan
we don’t have to hear from them again
and the cat will survive at any cost
Boats scour the water surface white
spectators on
open water in their own
race and we on the verge of losing Gonski
reform of
failing our children our children
failing falling our children wading neck deep
Saturday, July 28, 2018
Kit Kelen #940 - victims of instinct
940
victims
of instinct
cosy
up with to be more
and
do the inside out illusion
love
to be loved
and
that's a song
sometimes
we go upside down
top
to tail in out
or
round the tree
believe
me
and
I know you do
it's
just this once I cannot lie
here
hold this while I come for you
and
sing so no one else can see
it's
deep in the eyes we love
skip
with it step sprung
led
by the moon
by
the nose
by
the way
I am
a crocodile sometimes
moat
my whim
and
dress the part
often
begins with conversation
and
must be only half at bay
you'll
get a glisten after – love that
though
there could be grumble up to
or
even a cat attacks
once
swan swam or rather glide
and
all anticipation
that's
when walk on air
dream
dark in the belly
till
rub tug – rude enough for you?
have
we the skills, the nous?
you
always come to me as a question
and
you can call me tiger, do it
when
any word would break the spell
faster,
slower, further, less
you
wouldn't think a body could
but
then a body's done it
how
much of each does other know?
the
heart is listening here for us
and
sometimes waits as well
we
call out heart to heart all soulful
have
a mind to it
you'll
lose your head
and
you could give
call
deed and it can come with title
there
are vast estates in skin
peasants
have suffered from
and
sometimes they have overcome
indelicate
these manners
set
to sea hammock
slow
motion in whale
elephant
so
out
of the bath
sometimes
weakness overcomes
it
only helps me to be creature
hello
you
well
oiled machine
and
beautiful music
we
cannot keep
pitter
patter
snug
in sack
with
steady rain
and
in another skin altogether
I
have instincts
of
the victim
cringe
when
out
of the egg
all
leap
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