You with that silly, happy smile on your face
Your Luna Park expression
The night the bridge astride the Harbour
jade structure: onyx waters
A photo in the negative, inverse vigour
Oil-slick black
Your laughter your face
Lit up like the foreshores
Glisten lights dazzle: blare life
A night studded gold and incorrigible red
These ferries (marine glow-worms)
Humming purposefully by
Your eyes wide and shining
Firefly city
burn bright
I don’t want you to leave me
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Worked in the Australian rock music industry as a journalist and published widely as a poet before moving to London and spending the better part of a decade in advertising agencies. Returned to Australia and tried teaching, primarily teaching English to non-English speaking, newly-arrived refugees but also briefly as a high school classroom teacher. Has travelled Western Europe, North Africa, Russia, Northern India, East Asia, coastal USA, some Pacific Islands, and Australia.
