Saturday, 30 April 2022

Launch of Book of Mother and poetry jam - at the Chrissie Cotter Gallery, in Camperdown 1pm today

 https://www.facebook.com/events/3064264140452270


launch conversation with Maggie Ball 

jammin with

with Ed Wright and Duncan Kimball and Angie Contini 




#848 - angophora light

 



1.v.22

848

3.121

angophora light

for the Gore Cove Track Series

 

in after falls

and here’s the blue all held

stone and shadow

to the harbour

 

mind your step

so mossy now

 

sun for the tips

heart works uphill

termite tracks too

all climb

 

who lives the puddle?

none doubt world’s round

 

a fringe, a fray of purple ending

and we watch it being invented –

world’s first ever cloud

















just trying to get to a thousand

 









esperanta serio #274 - venteto estas mia tuta forporto

 




274

venteto estas mia tuta forporto

 

birdoj estas lingvo

montetoj kiom longe?

 

kiam cindro kaj venteto

forportas

 

malaparante kaj

ankoraŭ estas ĉi tie

 

vero de la bluo

preter vidado

 

konstanta gutado en la tanko

la  plej pura nuna forma de abundo

 







 

a breeze is all my bearing away

 

birds are a language

hills how long?

 

when ash and breeze

bear off

 

gone and I will

still be here

 

truth of the blue

beyond seeing


a steady dripping in the tank

the purest present form of plenty 

 


Friday, 29 April 2022

#847 - eruption -- ekphrastic for Cian X Dayrit (2022)

 



30.iv.22

847

3.120

eruption

ekphrastic for Cian X Dayrit [Henricus] (2022)

Blueprint of Dam as Sadistic Monument

 

abject

the eyes inside

the hand over

sky full

the gathering

and broadcast mountain

river in a cage

trees, factories

stump where forest was

all the words are lost worlds

ghost ships

and god’s phantom limb

strange creatures

a gallows then

canoe at oars

the palm laid easterwise

 

all the worlds are lost to these words

these few the ghosts of the said

as if a bible spill

 

windmill wish

lakes and wheels

the military vehicle

fish in the sea to die

stares

oxen upright

bearing death on a pole

the truck the smoke the flag

 

things all repeat themselves

I swim for the ladder to sink

in words and so spirits sing

 

balloon falls

cranes, the guard tower, lies

lights shone out

constellations, sharks

 

aliens and the made-up heaven

 

eye each and a camel, is it?

all things set to see out loud

 

the dam, a wall

beyond and under

where the lost live

 

a highway through it all

the tar pit and the dinosaur smoke

 

after a while

among the voices

will hear your own

 

puddles and someone proclaiming

each creature only just come to light

 

all thread all sewn

 

aerosharks, dozerbulls

rabbits yet to bark

 

village on stilts an aquarium now

a flight of the parts

of the decomposed

 

having taken to the dark

we otherworld

it’s as if to swim clutch

 

far moonflock

strangenesses

 

crashland tilling

bells in windows

 

some lightning and a satellite

grey as the pale of dawn

 

there is no net catch it all

 

things fall off

things erupt

 

imagine all this otherwise

imagine so it may be













https://www.berlinartlink.com/2021/01/19/extraction-and-exploitation-an-interview-with-cian-dayrit/

esperanta serio #273 - en la malrapidiĝo

 



273

en la malrapidiĝo

 

nubo floro arbo

la ruza saluto

 

preter la abeloj en la burĝonoj

ranoĝeneco

 

kaj io okazas

supreniras, eble ankoraŭ fruktos

 

ĉielo enen

la akvo kuranta

 

flugiloj estas

vojon

 

domo ĵetas ombrojn

ĝi eluzas ilin

 

ĉiuj tiaj kiel ĉi tiuj

estas en la ĝardeno

 

kaj mi estas afero-inter ili

kapti ankaŭ ĉe sunlumo

 

 







 

in the slowdown

 

cloud flower tree

the sly salute

 

pass the bees in the buds

frogsbother

 

and something's

come up, might yet fruit

 

a sky is in

the water running

 

wings are

a way

 

house casts shadows

it wears them out

 

all such as these

are in the garden

 

and I am thing-among-them

catch at sunlight too 

 

 


Thursday, 28 April 2022

#846 - autumn and the track

 



29.iv.22

846

3.119

autumn and the track

Gore Cove Track series

 

bracken rise

lizard skitter still

    damp

creek’s one way telling

 

and the track?

goes on underdrip

 

brushfowl in gladelight

ferns afoot

 

a little misted

mud further

 

some odd guitar, piano

among the calls of flight

 

to the harbour

to the sea

 

in the under leaf, stone

moss midst
lesser trails

and least

 

an ear for the mosquito

eye for ever up

 

then some sudden blue!

 

and here’s the sandstone sun presides

for whom we’ve waited all this way

a baton tip now still

 

 

 




 

 

in this pocket fallen out of the city

 

days may imagine

South Island lost

but then the phone must speak





 






















esperanta serio #272 - ne povas rakonti

 



 

272

ne povas rakonti

 

ne povas diri

kion ĉielo povus fari

ĝi malaltiĝas, levas

forblovas

 

tago estas rearanĝita laŭ si mem

 

jen poŝo da birdoj transirantaj

ili estas pluraj kantoj

tutan matenon

 

ne povas rakonti

kiel la mondo turniĝos

kiu momento estas la sekva

kaj ne, ĝi estas for

 

aferoj putriĝas

kaj leviĝu al la okazo

 

vidu alte supre

en la vito

folioj implikaj estas lumigita

 

spektaklo estas ĉio

ne sciante

kio sekvas

 

ĉio sugestas sin

kiel ni povus antaŭdiri?

 

simple

ne povas rakonti

 






 

 

no telling

 

no telling what

a sky could do

it lowers, lifts

it blows away

 

day's rearranged to suit itself

 

here's a pocket of birds crossing

they are several songs

all morning

 

no telling

how the world will turn

which moment's next

and no, it's gone

 

things rot

and rise to the occasion

 

see high up

in the vine

tangle leaf lit

 

spectacle's all

no knowing   

what's next

 

everything suggests itself

how could we have predicted?

 

there simply is

no telling