Charles Buckmaster 1951-1972


a variation of waiting nothing

                        coming
    and the day

      it is darker now
Woodstock.            Gruyere.       (Willochra)

abolished bastards of the trap

  a presence appears like a snare

       apparitions are hallucinogenic pulses
ABSTRACTIONS RISE
        the seed of god planted in the earth

but a disturbance….
              the true nature of this fear?

                              brooding in its decayed

                  momentary time:

an isolation (not limited to poets).
    of the WOMB destructive births

         have entered.
WHITE WHALE COMING
  great voiceless creature

we fled the city, belly

     of the white whale filled

crushed grasses,  grey buildings
                   state-wide MELBOURNE–

               I visited your house

                      … the school in Lilydale
couldnt find the broken poet

    his aging disciple had stopped writing/

  died alone-
         … it is through leaving that our lives

         begin to take form and enter full flight
  writing poems across our skulls we

drink death, a kind of sweet wine.