shovel

grain, glimmer, gold
sweat, salinity, symposium
glad, gutsy and gunning
boobs blowing banal
fried fish fired
em ends amends

lipstick from hell

queen st sighs – many miles cape reinga heat
keopa swings – four square fanta pizza hurts a small helpless maori chicken
whangerei is hit. a flying fish in oh that blue
taupo needs a chinese love not the fat argentinian
i love fat women. thin make me cry. an embrace that does not melt
a sigh that sings not

Kurukshetra

as the kaurav millions surrounded abhimanyu
he lost touch…who’s friend…who’s foe
ten more jungle miles of anonymity
millions of untied tails cutting through lobster
a tear bloody merciless judgement
fighting through damage

across

across the green sea
beyond the waters near rangatito
eyes shall meet
a stranger across concrete
at cross roads of red
you are gentle with a balanced charm
coffee coloured lips
radiant eyes

Fallen from a Mango Tree

Eaten by crows
fallen yellow leaf
pregnant indian summer
luscious crime book
crimson outplaying black
black outstaging max

what do you want

what do you really want
empty streets
full streets
meat
no meat
love
just friendship
honesty
brutally true
deception is not you
but the lab is filled
with pcs
rest sleep
or exercise
brain or brawn
style or freedom
hostel or your own house

hauntings

emily bronte haunts you
ann rand haunts you
robyn hide haunts you
sylvia plath haunts you
may mcnol haunts you
danielle steele haunts you
shakespeare’s dead sister Julia
haunts you

virginia woolf taunts you
oh man you are doomed

real fast internet

real slow life

cyclist on K rd
lost his true love
sunny at westmere
auckland’s greatest secret

ocean jades road hikes
falls curves jumps
just like life
just like life

heat

Mahabaleshwar cooler than hot island
green leaves million snakes panther tales
child sooth-sayers accurate winter mornings.
Abdul’s panther
Abdul’s taxi sooth on backsides
waterfalls the sahyadris
cool Pune great Shivaji’s
conquest evil Afzal Khan
its green but hay will go
gold in summer and sweat trickles
waterfalls

2007

lets learn to say
`empty streets what if
no one lives by sunshine
cathedrals blind parnell
stalking dears unsee clear
slabs meat green gray graphic sea

old hemant kumar songs
cow dung and simplistic life
no lanterns or bullock carts
take us to the next village

juggernaut’s here. a blind eye
stalking rumours and stealing lies
korean song in black cafe
border’s on other side

blue sky gold sun time flies with sea gulls
turmeric curry and chilli red doors
your couch is ouch but smile is nice
with a dash of garlic…parth needs to help

but number’s false and room choked
a promise i can keep under dark skies
walking 3ks under shade and sun
last font is magnified or lea.