gibbous moon haunting the damp trees
the police helicopter
sweeps its nightly load of paranoia
over the western suburbs
I always wonder if they're watching Hawthorn
just as carefully
maybe the arsenic in the earth here
makes people more criminal
meanwhile my daughter
breathes in the incense in her yoga class and my sons
watch anime dvds
a flock of birds drifts
over a building the horseman of the apocalypse
strides through a red fire
it is a dream
my daughter breathes my sons
talk softly together
Alison Croggon, Williamstown, Australia, 6.03pm
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Alison Croggon
Editor, Masthead
http://au.geocities.com/masthead_2/
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