winter # 10

Winter is for

Cold toes and soft sunlight

For sunflowers

And Dyson blues

Winter # 9

Winter is for

For a man with armfuls of tattoos and a ginger beard

On a freo sidewalk

Talking about birds and fruits

And potential permanency

Winter is for familiar barristers in forest green

For sitting on Gemma’s front steps overlooking the jacaranda tree

With green tea in mugs blue eyes blue and sunflower yellow

winter #8

winter is for
playing house
for baskets of pastries
for breakfast in a sunbeam
and for gemma's orange socks

and for trundling banjo riffs
for bread rising,
a roaring fire
and a rolling boil of mulled wine

winter #7

winter is for facilitating reckless desires
winter is for seeking for myself what i need

winter #6

winter is for kneading dough
warm ovens
sticky fingers
and a little sprinkling of flour

winter # 5

winter is for temptation

Winter # 4

Winter is for
Jumpers with tartan elbow patches
Wearing two pairs of socks
And colourful crochet blankets

Winter # 3

Winter is for
Ginger and red lentil soup
Carpet bags
And seeing ghosts

winter #2

winter is for
study nooks, Handel's Messiah
and for African tea and short bread

Winter # 1

Winter is for whistling red kettles
Fairy lights
And scattered little notes