summers

Poems from the heart of the season.

Queensland summer

Queensland summer is

a big belly laugh

rippling juices round.

It is an indulgent fart

bursting from the body

triumphantly.

It is

farting because you’re

laughing because you’re

farting

so much your sides burn

and your face explodes

and rippling juices

ooze from your eyes.

Norfolk Summer

Norfolk Summer is

a pup’s loving lick;

soggy tongue to the eyelid,

wet nose to the neck.

It is the fresh faced

girl’s giggle –

the tickle

of the dog's warm breath

to her strawberry cheeks,

her wheaten hair,

her sandy skin.

She rolls about the grass

and lays in its cold green,

watching the puppy

scurry away.