Can I write my life
as a poem
Quick short flashes of insight
of LSD, aka acid, colours
Bright edgy
Stare and dive into them
Driving by Aussie icons daily
Giant flagpole above the Parliament House
Flag flapping in the wind
A flag subservient to the British monarchy
Looking on but feeling no connection
Compare the figures
in painter Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series
Aussie landscape backgrounded
Stretching, shapely, tonal, subtle, expansive land
Figures of Ned Kelly and British police
Flat, harsh, superimposed
Not belonging in the Aussie landscape
Outliers
When and where do I belong
There is a place
A shared space for me
and extremely endangered gum trees
Callum Brae Nature Reserve
Here I belong
Talking to the trees
I reassure them
I will take a stand to protect
Our shared space
Tracking the Human: nobody's a long time 