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summer heat
overripe plums spill
into a bowl | sballas |
lamp light
buddha's features
flicker | sballas |
as she turns to leave
my mother's
girlish smile | sballas |
talk of suicide -
mother and daughter
on the way home | sballas |
on an embankment
three chinese
gather chestnuts | sballas |
shorter days ...
wizened grapes
cling to the vine | sballas |
a man alone
on a porch ...
smoke unfurling | sballas |
voices of india
from a kitchen window
smell of curry | sballas |
autumn tide
the geese changing shape
over an old wharf | sballas |
after lambing -
sheep
with trailers | sballas |
late evening
an approaching star
becomes a helicopter | sballas |
ducklings
file across the road
cars scatter | sballas |
shooting season
the village pond
alive with ducks | sballas |
driving behind a school bus
pupils signal
with their fingers | sballas |
almost spring
snowflakes
weep on my shoulder | sballas |
a blind man fishing -
seagulls
loot his bait box | sballas |
winter camping
footprints end
at the yellow snow | sballas |
health centre aquarium
at the bottom
a dead goldfish | sballas |
going through customs
a chef
the sniffer dog pauses | sballas |
on the parched earth
hawk's shadow:
war-planes over iraq | sballas |
putting on weight
the one-walk-a-week dog
from paekakariki | sballas |
on the deck
abandoned dog biscuits -
and a marble | sballas |
your tears at the airport
now it's raining
in la | sballas |
divorced poets
share
the same page | sballas |
"your ""freedom"" -"
costing us
the earth | sballas |
minute's silence:
through the loudspeakers
children's voices | sballas |
our last day
together
first daffodil | sballas |
after the storm
a fallen pine -
first flower on the kowhai | sballas |
tapping
the boatshed wall
a boat | sballas |
a giant rimu falls
within an hour
rain | sballas |
years later
off the pier
the same few boys fishing | sballas |
ex-junkie -
two bags
in his teacup | sballas |
into the stillness
a neighbour shovels
gravel | sballas |
op shop
pepper grinder
even has pepper | sballas |
shadows
on the chess board
becoming fewer | sballas |
city dump
a little boy finds
an old speech bubble | sballas |
an ambulance
fades with the distance . . .
sometimes . . . | sballas |
crowded lift
no raising
of eyes | sballas |
tonight
as you left
only half a moon | sballas |
postal box
letting go
that letter | sballas |
kite string
unwinding
the wind | sballas |
chemotherapy
putting on a brave face
as she loses her hair | sballas |
canterbury nor'wester
the cat stretched
under the geraniums | sballas |
formal dinner
the forgotten savour
of etiquette | sballas |
nativity scene
angel
waving to grandma | sballas |
riverbank
lined with hats
whitebait season | sballas |
south road
crosses on a fence
where a family ended | sballas |
nobody home
the evangelists
talk to the dog | sballas |
first love
the secret her face
tells everyone | sballas |
late walk
beach and moon
the same curve | sballas |
all the notes
in the skylark's song
sky blue | sballas |
sandflies
tiny bits
of buddha | sballas |
summer ice
the shopkeeper
bangs his scoop | sballas |
magnolia shade
cicadas
in both ears | sballas |
livestock auction
no one bids
for the sparrows | sballas |
every morning
waiting for the kingfisher . . .
bare branch of the eucalypt | sballas |
if not for the shadow
on the canyon wall
i would have missed the condor | sballas |
clouds
chasing clouds
the scent of lemon | sballas |
all the way down
freewheeling through
cicada song | sballas |
adult walk
a skip
in the child's step | sballas |
this wide sky
in the grass
a thrush's broken egg | sballas |
night storm
her waters
break | sballas |
twilight
a tui mimics
a tui | sballas |
exhibit
the tuatara stares
at the class | sballas |
cold wind
every oystercatcher
headless | sballas |
cathedral tour
the locals
keep praying | sballas |
daybreak
the baby's first cry
drowned by thunder | sballas |
old dance floor
the piano ivories
lifting | sballas |
hurricane
the taste of rain
from a barrel | sballas |
daguerreotype
my infamous ancestor
in diapers | sballas |
clouded moon
the sound of her slip
hitting the floor | sballas |
childhood home
someone else's mother
on the mantelpiece | sballas |
high desert
i'm surrounded
by a fly | sballas |
terminal.
she skirts
the word | sballas |
neighbour's cat
the cicada in its teeth
keeps singing | sballas |
muddy garden
her puppy
brings it in | sballas |
bulldozer
a yellow caterpillar
in its tracks | sballas |
bright moon
light years
between starfish | sballas |
teenage daughter -
beyond the policeman at the door
the street light | sballas |
after the game
full moon
between the goal posts | sballas |
in the shed
calendars
of cobwebs | sballas |
morning tea?
from the parakeet's cage
a toy bell tinkles | sballas |
snow covered field
the impressions
of angels | sballas |
another stair
the weight of my daughter's
college bags | sballas |
nameless dirt road
and at the end of it
a field of potato blossoms | sballas |
a shrike's cry
the river widening
at the bend | sballas |
fireworks at the park
someone brings
in a boombox | sballas |
country graveyard
a worn path between
the dead | sballas |
autumn sunset
fog spills over
the coastal hills | sballas |
cloud peaks
inch by inch the worm
stretches its shadow | sballas |
descending notes
of a canyon wren?
sunset | sballas |
dense smoke
the steep mountain road
curving sharply | sballas |
remembering my mother?
a wood thrush song
at dusk | sballas |
carrying moonlight
into the house?
white peony | sballas |
stillness
in the storm's eye
stars | sballas |
quiet house?
a spot of decay
on the anthurium | sballas |
puddle?
just for a moment
the moon at rest | sballas |
the ashes
still log-shaped?
her 21st birthday | sballas |
rainy day?
one tile missing
from the blue roof | sballas |
meditation . . .
a pinecone plunks
the koi pond | sballas |
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