the streets tabernacle knuckles the skateboarders
his tavern carbuncles the watershed with its men
fake boulders hold hands in a green circle at twilight
stake holders careen and shuck into motion sickness
sweet marshals create porsches and form bread knots
maureen and co sweep dishes into these endless vigils
sleep well my dove on the beach but shall wake cranky
caress the tarot card reading oak scored tortoise shell
oh kill brilliant seeds and sneak over tapioca bridges
trap core ideas in a mollusc and trash does buckle over
torpid memory of isaac balloons and grows forlornly
ushered molecules in a stairwell of hearty soup for one
be sweaty and midges harangue the borsch and lottery
brash citizenry corrals new england by ukrainian night
Gareth Morgan is a poet and a postie from Melbourne. He has been published in Cordite and Rabbit.