A wedding present of words from me to her hastily scratched onto a napkin.
Nikos coffee lounge, King st Newtown.
Doing the book-seller shuffle
she's such a diversion
laughing
applying pressure
my mind about a breast, up a skirt and home
touching the moistened crevice.
Her wine of life douses my deepest thoughts
douses her pubes
about to burst the afternoon in delight, Strauss and pianos.
Finding humour above a bandanna necklace
still smiling even now.
My words hidden close to her heart
hidden in secrecy.








Such soft sweet murmur
"Not here"
"Not now"
We can go no further

The age of all things
So precious
So calamitous
As my darkness sings

Furrow trenched into the brow
Of worry
Of wonder
A fiery supernova of now.

That hands alone allay
About a face
About a self
Velveteen gloves now gone away.

A night guest finding me
How lost?
How familiar?
Sharing that gratis, set free.







The kids blow snot back over sulphate crystals to the footpath
on the mobile
fashionably late.
The dog-chain keeps a wallet attached.
My haunches start to ache
I write uncomfortable.







Here the hotted-up Holden rules!!
It revs
shouts "Hello" to an aproned escort of trolleys and fresh fruit, bread and milk
smoking a 5 minute break into a 10 minute sickie.








She's an Oriental pear-body looking like a Koi in an Eastern pond
She smiles the fountain trickle through a cascade of mascara.







Cigarettes lay in ashtrays doubled over in pain
not half of what they were.









There's music in the other room
"I missed that girl, was it sorry you said?"
I'm laying on my lonely bed
with a dream somewhere in mind
could you take the time
whisper to me again
say the words "I want you"

There's a party in the garden
friends are drinking beers
"It's still early" I heard one say
you said "I've had a long day"
with a dream somewhere in mind
could you find the time
whisper to me again
say the words "I need you"

There's a baby crying the just awake tears
we uncouple our love
"Your turn or is it mine?"
"Let's toss the coin"
"Tails it's mine"
with a dream somewhere in mind
could you take the time
whisper to me again
say the words "I love you".