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.
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