On a hill overlooking a crocodile flanked river lives a musical fruit tree jungle hut  To get there you must travel past fields where sugar canes, banana trees and coconut palms touch the sky, competing for space with an ever hungry pig filled jungle  Tree skeletons protrude brokenly from caked mud which licks at my […]

We start in the womb with our own hypnosis Our dance with the natural and created world Sensation and movement  Light and dark Noises filtered through a bubble Then we are born and the hypnotic play takes on a whole new intensity  Are we the magician? Who has the power? What is the game? I […]

We’re stolen generation Parents stolen by work Or sinking back the bottle  While we play in the dirt We always keep our mouths closed We don’t spill out the violence  We never want to impose So we scream out in silence  We go to church We say our prayers At night we hug our teddy […]

Fashionable people huddle Layered up like herons Musicians of varying talents Try to appeal to us With their varying gibes and costumes As we walk smartly across town Those with less skill making up for it With elaborate costumes and a cheeky fascade Those with real talent Modestly slide across the strings effortlessly Making me […]

Burying an old rotting Tasmanian tiger A road fatality brought here by a man who is not here at this point  Skin stripped off and nailed stretched over an old log to make a new drum skin  The muscles and sinews make a macabre display on the front porch  An interesting addition to a mostly […]