Monday 25 February 2013

Ampersand


Mischievous black matchmakers
Joining that which was not joined together,
Leaving them tied up that way
Forever.
Imps.

Marvellous slack half hitches
Twisting this way then retwisted together,
Weaving then bound up to say
Meaning
Knots.

Miniscule block macropods
Bounding the field that they bind together,
Cleaving parts rounding to play
Mercurial
Games.

Friday 8 February 2013

Brown


Brown

The dried platform moss.
The hacked melaleucas.
The chocolate Toyota 4WD.
The dead grass.
The Labradors being walked.
The fallen timber.
The stone walls of Byzantine Greek and Mediterranean Restaurant.
The rain-stained palings.
The old banana skin.
The discarded pizza box.
The beard of the reader. (Passenger)
The striped awnings.
The tiled vistas of Rosanna.
The brick paving
The ‘HONK’ graffiti.
The en tout cas tennis courts.
The two Heidelberg tunnels.
The flats.
The tiled vistas, more.
The brown back of the road signpost.
The stationmaster’s block on Heidelberg Station.
The aged padlock.
The sparrows in the carpark.
The window edges of the Olivia Newton-John Wing.
The coffee cups from Heidelberg Station café.
The glum cloud.
The carpark gutter humus.
The rail bridge.
The dark reefs in the cutting slopes.
The earth in the rockface.
The prunus branches.
The rusting garage roof.
The palm tree.
The oak trunk.
The house amidst trees and houses at the top of the hill.
The fox licking himself.
The ageing terracotta roofs.
The undulating eucalyptus bark.
The Grammar School signage.
The platform retaining walls at Ivanhoe.
The speckled pigeons on the wires.
The hacked palm tree trunks.
The tee-shirt and sunnies of the dude. (Passenger)
The Burberry jacket of the day tripper. (Passenger)
The Ivanhoe Uniting Church.
The smog over Doncaster.
The graffitied gantries.
The ‘SOOS’ graffiti.
The rocks.
The striated stone slopes of Ivanhoe cutting.
The mullock heap.
The shades of the underpass.
The dirt pile.
The sixties block of flats near Darebin Station.
The dried-up pond.
The swamp.
The decking of the riverside house.
The browny-green Darebin Creek.
The heatwave oleanders.
The retaining rocks.
The old metal pipe.
The stems of the gums.
The power station.
The carry-case of the academic at Alphington Station. (Passenger)
The ‘CENT’ graffiti.
The ‘KOOKABURRA’ graffiti.
The tan bark.
The leaves.
The dark brick fence.
The bamboo fence.
The streaky paling fence.
The hedge fence.
The wire fence.
The Church of St Anthony of Padua.
The refuse.
The multi-coloured brick fence.
The Fairfield Industrial Dog Object.
The empty travellers’ shelter.
The deco sunrise sunrays above the cottage porch.
The tortoiseshell-rim glasses of the businessman. (Passenger)
The brown baby mural on the old closed Milk Bar.
The brown window shades.
The pots of the Northcote Nursery.
The dead weeds in the Dennis Station planter.
The JC Decaux movie poster.
The reddish-brown roll-a-door.
The Foxy Café.
The brown book of the lawyer in violet bowtie. (Passenger)
The dark brown brick units.
The evaporative cooler.
The school uniform. (Passenger)
The Northcote church on the hill.
The empty beer bottle on Westgarth Station platform.
The butterfly mural on Westgarth Street garage gate.
The fallen gumbark.
The frayed ivy.
The ‘BOOM’ graffiti.
The ‘OEWT’ graffiti.
The new paling fence.
The blur of the express going the other way.
The Merri Creek stepping stones.
The brown Renault.
The mud-spattered white van.
The truck.
The beige Toyota in the Clifton Hill Station carpark.
The tiny power station.
The chimney remains of the stationmaster’s quarters.
The timber yard.
The rusted yard.
The rusty rivets in the sleepers.
The conglomerated trunk bark of the peppercorns.
The ‘IF’ graffiti near Clifton Hill crossing.
The ‘EXERT’ graffiti.
The ‘OM’ graffiti.
The sunburnt fennel.
The Clifton Hill chimney.
The burnished vehicles on the Eastern Freeway.
The self-storage building.
The discarded kitty box.
The sand mounds at the depot.
The old brick wall of Victoria Park Football Ground.
The Collingwood Coin Laundry.
The thousand browning elm leaves.
The smudged off-white warehouse.
The had-it witches hats.
The heritage colour tin roof of Collingwood Station.
The swept backyards.
The resolute house chimneys.
The tanned school teacher in old sandals. (Passenger)
The Abbottsford chimney.
The Abbottsford Brewery.
The high-rise facades.
The palm trees.
The pebble walls of North Richmond Station.
The ‘OGR4’ graffiti.
The rusted warehouses.
The rooftop apartments.
The discarded metal plates.
The peppercorns.
The grids of New York Tomato Café.
The burn marks on West Richmond Station platform.
The dead scrunched leaves.
The gum leaf marks on West Richmond Station platform.
The two long dark tunnels curving under Richmond.
The art deco flats.
The dry cutting.
The bricked-up windows of Jolimont Station.
The leaves of the broken branches.
The dried stalks.
The Federation brick frontage.
The wings of the mynahs.
The rusted girders.
The hundred tree trunks beneath foliage of Fitzroy Gardens.
The rail yards.
The Telstra Building.
The Hyatt Building.
The ANZ Building.
The Forum theatre.
The sticks.
Flinders Street retaining wall.
The ‘old Gucci bags’ that are Federation Square.
The dingy shadows under Federation Square, old Princes Bridge.
The crowd railings of Flinders Street Station.
The brown backpack of the café worker. (Passenger)
The suede jacket of the off-duty taxi driver. (Passenger)
The electricity box.
The HWT Building.
The Langham Building.
The dulled golden square atop the Eureka Building.
The Victoria Building.
The Loof Building.
The Crown Building.
The Riversdale Apartments.
The Southern Cross Station brooms.
The Etihad shadows.
The stains down the walls.
The pipes parallel with fluorescent tubes.
The murk.
The mirk.
The pressed-metal walls of Flagstaff Station.
The iphone of the legal representative. (Passenger)
The merk.
The floor tiles of Platform One, Melbourne Central.
The discarded coffee cup.
The leather case of the Personal Assistant. (Passenger)
The ribbed concrete shadows.
The burnt-out fluorescents of The Loop.

Macleod Station to Parliament Station, summertime 2013