Joanna Walkden Harris & Pete Spence


Chipped Shoreline.
 
where have the fireworks gone?
where is Stravinsky? no sign
anywhere of the lime burner's
nicely chipped granite blocks
along the shorelines greenery
a mustard green slur of a boulevard
heading towards a horizon 
of moving sandy grains whitening
in the spray of falling enigmas
chewing up the forest under
a very lucid sky that night would
approach as an exploding
mythology among the casuarina
needles and flowers mimicking
the shadows of violins before
the attritions of dawn



Skims a Reflection.
 
a size 9 cormorant skimming 
through wetness
a reflection mirroring itself 
like a lean-to of shadows 
planning the idea of an island
on the back of your mind 
rustling about against the wind 
as a marquee of thought
flung up caught as a capsized 
sky an origami fold leaning
into the leaves of the sun
crammed between some 
runic clouds as a story lashing
any new calm from a chorus
of magpies in the wings
and on the wing 



Pete Spence: Three Poems

Joanna Walkden Harris is a photographer/printmaker/poet born in Melbourne in 1950.

Pete Spence was born in 1946. He is a poet, visual poet, editor, and filmmaker, and has worked in various jobs to cover the ongoing deficit. A collection of his visual poetry, 5 X Y, was published last year by Red Fox Press as part of the C'est Mon Dada series.

 
 

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