Breathe ~ Relax ~ Drink Black Tea Often
A single porch light
promising the merest light
still shows the way home
Waiting for the tide
to cover rusting pylons
The ocean’s textures
At Christmas Day lunch
my cat in her festive way
joins the big table
Shell and tumble stones
Picture of an open mind
Room for some closure
Pictures of pictures
of my much younger city
The milk shake long drunk
Strung out power lines
and a jumble of sky cloud
The garden grows on
Listen carefully
on the steely city bridge
Working souls sighing
Candle waxing light
Its flame as still as the dark
A slow wind nears
In the next garden
ready grown bridal bouquets
Something old and new
Barky grasshopper
blending in its autumn coat
Done with summer’s green
Growing sunflowers
on their way to taller things
don’t forget their roots
In rustling gardens
small lizards make the most noise
Dinosaur homage
A hovering bee
decides on the day’s colour
Pollination blues
The water dragon
stops beyond the lake’s wet edge
Its grassy playground
A toddler gecko
learning the kitchen’s routines
clocks on for dinner
Happily curling
from one end to the other
Autumn straitening
From the veranda
Watching the watcher snapping
Invitation soon
Mint breathing garden
makes up for decaying friends
Edible perfume
Fishbone fernery
Classified as noxious weeds
My mother loved them
The garden growing
Dramatic cutbacks then rain
Different sameness
The fullness of space
Abundance in an absence
The water’s edge thin
Cactussy bristle
on the softest green padding
Split skin sharpening
An ocean gateway
awaiting its tidal friend’s
gushing arrival
High density life
in a town on a mission
Faster, squarer, bland
A spotlit entry
to a closed and darkened church
Don’t come on Monday
A children’s playground
features multi-colored worms
Kids know what to do
Stairless church exit
raised above and beyond earth
A door-framed Limbo
Mystery sculpture
invites visitors inside
Purposeful twirling
Light in the darkness
Any kind will do the job
Candle shadows stretch
Neighboring puppy
already used to snapping
Shutterbugging pests