Visions
(June 1999. Millennium… The result of another sleepless night.) The night grows cold clouds fill the void between the stars and this Earth this land that birthed you and I Hold me closer for fires of destruction rain down on these cities centuries old looking in to the maw...
Ships in the Night
(1989, a Hitchhiker story about the Midland Hwy, Morwell, cnr Firmin’s La & Commercial Rd) I Ah, what a night. You were standing idly by, waiting for some change in time… perhaps two bits more than the normal offerings of chance. A parade of...
Picasso
(1992, Morwell, The Rush Disco corner. Pure fantasy, my mind running wild.) I heard the car pull up, window down… leather gloves – glasses glowing orange – and pistol silencer pointing out the door: its fartish report, barely audible over the night club music flooding these dark streets, with...
Silence of the Lamb
(1993, a baby lamb left impaled on a highway white post for 3 hours.) ‘And as the Lamb crossed the Midland highway, Silence filled the air; ‘And the Host of Heaven looked on in dark sorrow, as the traffic smote him… ‘And as their tears fell down His dead...
Witness
(1992, whilst washing cars at 10 am, the mind wanders over issues of the day) I She lay crumpled in the gutter. Clothes torn, and limbs tied… trussed like a rolled roast. Her life blood, lying coagulated between her thighs, over the asphalt and...
Squimish
(1994. for Lavinia: a hardcore Vegan, and Lab. Tech. student, Yallorn Vic. Aust.) 1. She crushes insects beneath her heal, to squeamish to catch them to remove them from her room. She sees them scurry and knows they’re alive but cannot face them in the Lab behind the glass...