Recall a distant past life a victorious lion

Restless, trying to remember the mislaid

Suddenly remembered the word, insomniac,

A golden age, until blood explodes from jugulars.

Home and all in one peace (sic)

Dear ______, thank you, life is spinning out of control

Off-duty crew bunked down, glad to be silent underwater

Back to a day in 1996, when lightning struck the plane

Still, a glacier or two

1996: watching the news on a TV at the airport

Wandering in a happy state

Flocks of birds cavort over a playing field scores of cockatoos fly kamikaze style the

Two young bronzewing pigeons bob up and down

Next we meet Chornobyl’s special babies:

Friendly apes are gone so our closest living relatives are cars and

There are episodes you’re glad you missed

Thinking can clutter, do more harm than good.

The old Police rapid response ‘Flying Squad’,

Standing as still as possible in a straggly line

Red-eyed teddy-boys tarting in clubland

Say nothing and the power of the wind feeds

Here you are, you are here – X marks the spot – 

Over the phone an uncalled for speech:

Driving in search of the address we’d been given

A door materialises, you arrive from the future,

thank the lords of gleam

Promising an invisible world and the inspiration

Boot splash

ate flying saucers,

no honour seeing

doom car doom music

hard rain, crazed possum

training cat to be

suburban Rimbaud

they can’t remember

Pokémon sneak in

can think of nothing

beyond redemption

flying squad ends up

our kids are messy

burning the midnight

one day there will be

the secret of good

toy orangutans

too much me, me, me

you blazing bird-shark

go out and have fun

rain settles pollen

no air force can stop

waits till his family

young kamikaze

this loneliness is

two clever beggars

moon trapped in quiet

Reality bends into itself, we think we’re going places

Master Sun Tzu, say something before

Politics is mostly men in a bear pit;

An empty room

Another three weeks basic training

The way a beast fumbles among its belongings—an

So many times since the day he died, I’d met him

Breathing exhilaration, life is wonderful worth living, and

Also known as a part time love poet he

Drove by the house where you grew up

Justin Bieber ringtone saves Russian man

In captivity the elephants

Lament trees and tigers,

He rose from the vision and knew what to do;

Eternal kitchen amid playful spinifex

Raindrops plash

Walk down the quiet path,

The clouds are always there

He starts a landslide shooting a

Sun shines a gone Sunday, the assignation

We lived in electricity’s future

A green Mallarmé floats ethereal over the Harbour Bridge

The river and creeks carry sweet ash,

People don’t understand you

How quiet the mind is can determine

Diminished world. The demagogue’s cruel slogans

Puffed up non-com, big-noting himself for an alien woman

Not born a robot, but I pursued the robot way –

Once upon a time stars in the sky

Planet X arrived to hang around

Common nouns personified can come to life

Begins on a distant, creaking world

The galaxy.

Captain’s quill scratched

The travel agent’s eyes bubbled

Ask any question.

Mrs Possum sniffs the air, smells slices of bread

Zeus handed Troy’s smoking altars to the Greeks

All the world’s a game and we