A Reading from Small Town Kid

This morning I've attempted to create a Facebook Video as a Small Town Kid promotion. The video features some scenes from Beechworth, while I read the introductory poem - I can hardly wait to show you. And it's true. I really can hardly wait to show you. Please feel welcome to check out the video, …

still air

the street so quiet now nothing not a breath of air so still it almost feels a solid thing somewhere north and west of here there is dragon breath lying red across the land they tell me it is coming my way close and even closer the air will move when it comes they say …

Flock #22: safe

I in my flock I safe from harm whenever we go I go whenever we turn I turn I in the heart of my flock I am safe in the middle from harm ~

to paint (like a master)

he wrote the brush into his hand within a paragraph the palette using easy phrases he expressed an easel the white paper a little discomfited at his own pretentiousness he included the description of a splotchy smock he saw himself wearing a beret no not that but a loose hat to keep the sun at …

we become the reflection (of our art) – a cautionary tale for Ted.

it was the eyes that he noticed first in the night and in the light they could stop the traffic glowing red and it was the jawline rough with a greenish tinge of algae multiplying and somehow it was the snout that always seemed longer than before always seeming to need more length to fit …

Flock #21: for life

as high as I can climb as far as I can roam something there calls out my name I will seek it until I die I will seek it for my life ~

remember was

I remember I remember that I was like an echo of being but I do not know how long between that then and now I remember a moment when I was but I don’t recall the time I was perhaps I was as long as not at all ~ Poem #462 from a series of …

George

A short while ago I posted a link to the Australian Speculative Fiction site, to show off a poem that I'd penned to a picture posted over there, called Only the Wind (is free). I wrote a second poem for the same picture and thought it would be wasteful not to post it here on …

Flock #19: searching

other birds other ways but still they search all the skies for their answers ~

Small Town Kid – Sneak Peek

A little peek inside the covers of the Small Town Kid e-book on Amazon. This poem - I can hardly wait to show you - is the preface piece for the collection. Some very lovely things have been said about the Small Town Kid memoir, but they look a little lonely. Some more reviews posted to …