Tuesday, October 31, 2006

the rainbow mall

around the ultra-modern water-walled
new shopping mall people still
put up fence in the old way:

thin slices of old bamboo that cut
into yellow palms, bits of wire and
the reliable softness of the red earth

of jakarta.

Monday, October 16, 2006

late night in a bus to newcastle

was there frost
on windows did we blow

kisses to the dark
outside did you point

to the two overlapping
slowly-disappearing

circles was your arm around
my neck did you say

going, going, going
gone

is this what's happening
now to you and my memory of

going, going, going
gone?