two thousand years
borne on the broken columns
of Ephesus –
my feet at the grand theatre
in the footsteps of St Paul

• Ephesus Archaeological Site, Turkey
  

in the corner
of the white-walled room
a sad ficus…
bright slices of outside
play across the slow clock

• Specialist’s waiting room
  

silence and dust
all day the beating sun
on vast red earth
at night the vivid Milky Way
and my easy languid breath

• Central Australia
  

bellbirds ring
among the fiddleheads
of countless ferns –
the misty string section
of Sherbrooke’s orchestra

• Sherbrooke Forest, Dandenongs, VIC