Saturday, December 11, 2004

Red Poppies renga - complete!

Red Poppies
A summer kasen renga written by Andrew Burke, Jen Crawford, Louise Waller, Lawrence Upton, Kristin Hannaford, Jennifer Compton, Heather Matthew, Jill Jones and Anie Locke. From 24 November to 11 December, 2004.


red poppies
lean into steam
off the wet path
ab

in the fernery
fingers press sweating glass
jcr

fierce heat fades
evening twilight glows
a pink line
lw

a fly stumbles
at a water glob
lu

folding clothes
she drinks dark coffee
moon observes
kh

the grasses seeding
green fruit swells above
jco

midnight light
on watered garden
goat dung smells
hm

four pink peonies a gift
sheets need washing
jj

remembering
love - a red petal
her tattoo
al

forked over
the compost steams
ab

a worm
the uneaten meat
a grey hair
jcr

the peopled world spins
cars stall in traffic
lw

moon bright as frost
field of white goat skulls
intruder light
lu

postcards from annapurna
clouds of breath hover
kh

before dawn
we dread the heat
promised to us
jco

a darkening sky
rain splatters fresh hay
hm

green light
on the cherry blossom
a morning squabble
jj

a fat bud cracks open
rising rivers roar
al

‘present for you, Gran!’
red eucalypt from
council tree butchers
ab

colour wrinkles through clean wood
beneath the peeling bark
jcr

compose lists
to gather sparrows
seeds on lawn
lw

so much to organise
too much to say
lu

starfish legs
synchronised swimming
summer ladies' lunch
kh

salt water in the harbour
obeys the distant moon
jco

fishermen
stand off shore to sniff
wet weather
hm

the station wagon starts slowly
its old dry cough
jj

ancestral
tyres bald from travel
home, a bed
al

fluttering wings of
a blind white moth
ab

faint crescent
between the hospital
and heavy clouds
jcr

in Carlton leaves blow
a red and gold dawn
lw

hope? dust.
accumulating soil
green augmentation
lju

girl running fingers through hair
a tongue over teeth, lipstick
kh

shaking with fatigue
she searches for her glasses
she can't see them
jco

empties out her bag feeling
a fathomless sea rising
hm

a breeze spills
into the valley
jacaranda carpet
jj

equinoctial petals fall
onto the bloomin' pages
al

No comments: