Once in a blue moon

I was very happy to get placed 2nd in the 2017 Dunedin Chinese Garden Moon Festival poetry competition. I wrote … More

Between Contracts

The weeks constrict, pythons around my ribs, under which the turbid valves of the heart pump on with blind certainty. … More

There was a commotion outside the window. A million people arrived overnight and moved swiftly to assemble petrol stations, delicatessens … More

The front page notes a report of a comet and how it came darting out of the void, a … More

She was shifting form, encircling and seamless, swirling from moment to moment without apparent sense, with sudden violence and … More

(Person Overboard, 70 kilometres South of Stewart Island, New Zealand, 24 January 2004) It’s not a sea. It’s ocean. Brood … More

“Her great orbit is full, and then her beams shine brightest as she increases. So she is a sure token … More

Port, Dogtown, Koputai, names good and ill, you look outward to oceans, waiting for the world. Cruise liners and log … More