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- selections from The Glint of Sunlight at allpoetry
Who am I? – I am the unnamed god. My name is stolen in the firestorms of creation, my name is stolen eternally. I dance because I have no name; and I dance because my feet are married to the wind. I am unkind. I am vicious. I - Beautiful Excess at allpoetry
. - Waves at allpoetry
. - The Trembling god at allpoetry
. - The Curse at allpoetry
. - A Play at allpoetry
. - No, no. No at allpoetry
. - Solace at allpoetry
. - I Want the Waves at allpoetry
. - Leaving at allpoetry
. - First Verse at allpoetry
. - Widow's Laughter at allpoetry
. - Death Hovers Close alll the Time, Slowly Biting through the Width of her Spine at allpoetry
. - Kathryn at allpoetry
. - All the Songs at allpoetry
. - Ah, Hegel, Cheer Up. at allpoetry
. - Storm Poems: 3 at allpoetry
. - Storm Poems: 2 at allpoetry
. - Storm Poems: 1 at allpoetry
. - A Moon Song at allpoetry
. - [ I am falling through these spring days in to the lap ] at allpoetry
. - The Armidale Club at allpoetry
. - Beauty Itself at allpoetry
. - Bitter Herbs (or Catholic Mass, 26.08.2007) at allpoetry
. - A Husband's Song at allpoetry
. - A Father's Song at allpoetry
. - The Circling Bird at allpoetry
The circling bird in great arcs / Grinning across the sky / Is singing that he is not afraid to die / For who could ever be afraid / Of the final threshing scythe / Who is gliding t'wards his end / - At Honour's House, Kangaroo Point at allpoetry
Here on the warm honeyed ground I lay / Smelling darkmothlife and leaves / I dig up tiny worms who pretend they're snakes / And feed me apples buttonsized / I climb into the trees, / All full of breeze / - My tiny room: 85 Boundary Road, West End, Brisbane, QLD, Australia at allpoetry
A man is screaming incoherently in the street - / As this cricket near my head / Keeps in rhythm with the darkness and traffic outside. / Over and over he screa - My Hands, No. 2 at allpoetry
My hands follow my instructions / With a precision that causes constant amazement / They have untied the bow from your hair / While I'm still searching for the right words / They have dimmed the lights and p - Tiny Dreams at allpoetry
They have surrounded me, / And lifted me to the wind: / These fireflies / They are tiny dreams, / Swarming in on the innocent sleep / Catching me in a moment's lucidity / They are shaking the leaves / - Falling through Time into Space at allpoetry
Listening to suberb igloo discussions, / I dance with a mouth full of birds / The sounds echo off the ice and a woman's soft voice / Is stuck inside its own imagination. / Hearing this chamber warp inside / A - [ This winter sky hangs low ] at allpoetry
This winter sky hangs low / Low enough to touch / To tickle its sagging belly / And make it rain laughter / Winter has killed the leaves / And I thank her for it / For now I walk close to trees / And examin - Sliver No. 3 at allpoetry
Suddenly I sense light spilling / Into a dark abyss: / I pass over it, trembling, / And make believe that I'm dancing. / And it chuckles in its sleep. - Sliver No. 2 at allpoetry
the elect are thrust / to the stars in dust / and visions
