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Tighearnan John Kelly

Writer, librarian, general person

Tag: bush poetry

Breath

Posted on January 27, 2021February 5, 2021 by Tighearnan

A vacant road,
A conveyor belt
On a vacant landscape
Rotating beneath the…

The arborist’s first grandchild (one in, one out)

Posted on June 20, 2014February 5, 2021 by thermio

Small shite it grows in the light a forest of green in a bucket of skyfe twisting onward and upward… Read more The arborist’s first grandchild (one in, one out)

Fences

Posted on May 13, 2014February 5, 2021 by thermio

Stitches seep across burnt skinwounds that weep ounce sewing pinssinew shapes turn sutured tracksalong yellow shoulders, down purple back Green… Read more Fences

Cleaver

Posted on May 9, 2014August 3, 2020 by thermio

Split toes crumbling, crack, as the body rots appendages are the first to go Lepered flowers snap, under bruised leather… Read more Cleaver

Slugs are allergic

Posted on May 7, 2014August 3, 2020 by thermio

It croaks as it’s dying, body sunken, when it wriggles, it jiggles, and rolls its side in upon itself like… Read more Slugs are allergic

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