A Winter Meditation “For the poor wren, the most diminutive of birds, will fight, her young ones in the nest, against the owl.” Lady Macduff. Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Diminutive wrens flitting from ground to tree On freezing cold mornings, in furious southerlies Along with the thorn-bills and red fire-tail finches You tiniest of birds in these […]
haiku crabwalking with heads cocked bookshop browsers pre-winter arm(y) attack flu shot a cockatoo cry unzipping the sky what will fall out first cake cut on his birthday face a cracked smile on the stack the click of bricks unbuilding – Bill Wootton In between cleaning bricks, getting jabbed, writing haiku, Bill has been strolling […]
Autumn Cirrus streaked dawning Raven caw magpie chortle Essence of autumn Buffeted dry curls Naked deciduousness Windfall red-gold-brown Bitter ice reveal Chill factoring southern wind Murderous frost knife Meagre sun ration Leaden darkness afternoon Acrid woodfire smoke – Julie Moran Julie finds inspiration within the minutiae of life. She is a member of Clunes […]
rumble cocooned in your car a thunder of bikers starts to pass each engine amplifies the quiet in your cabin are there more ahead now than behind still they come you are mid-rumble the wave is not breaking on it surges towards trentham – Bill Wootton Bill is a slow lane sort of driver whose […]
My watch was blind I woke down this morning. My bed got out of me and I felt a whole lot better. I walked out of my house and the bridge threw me across Five Mile Creek. The library was free. It crossed at the traffic lights and asked me to come inside I said […]
Duck duck Is a duck a bird Is a duck a duck Do we just fly out Do we just duck out Is a duck a duck Just out for a duck Do we just duck out Wriggle like a worm Just out for a duck Waddle like a duck Wriggle like a worm Love […]
Laundry blues Oh, sodden tissue in the wash What fool has cast you in? To shred into a million pieces When you should have gone in the bin. Now infinite sticky pieces of you Adhere to all my clothes And all because I had a cold And used you to blow my nose I’ve shaken, […]
Clunes Booktown Festival will mark its 20th anniversary on March 21-22 with a stellar program on the theme of defiance and hope. More than 15,000 people are expected to join the festival, creating a bustling hub of readers, authors, booksellers and music-lovers of all ages. Festival creative director Suzi Cordell says the event will include […]
