by JEANNIE HAUGHTON where landscape dwarfs everything freckled and speckled umber sands asphalt ribbon looping between outcrops russet boulders burnished bronze scrub fading into a blue distant skyline- shimmer-hazed blips nomad vans embracing the long haul languid stretches roads and…
by JEANNIE HAUGHTON cloudless endless sky Cessna drone drills holes in the silence predator-tense the man with a camera perches cockpit awkward scanning for horizon-framed perfection he filter-tweaks expanses of landscape zooms a bird’s eye view of a flea-sized roo…
by JEANNIE HAUGHTON Briny the air tanging the tongue misting the eyes under sombre skies the stones on the waterline roll-rest-roll-rest-roll-rest hightide treasures pocketed parched-pale ’til wave-slapped a palmed pebble is magically reborn recalling nurimono that other sheen in that other…
under the vastness and stardust of outback skies mosquito whine-slap – her homecoming an itch that always entails scratching each elegant whirl the silence of windmills south coastal background to the dervish clash of toddlers and waves oppressive the heat…
Jeannie Haughton writes primarily for performance, having many works produced; also freelance articles. Poetry allows her to play with words, images and ideas. Sometimes its rigorous forms attract her; other times playfulness or the catharsis is just what she needs. …
