Poetry

Hal G.P. Colebatch: Three Poems

Bunbury motel   How pleasant to wake and see from the morning window the white deployment of cricketers on a green field above the sea!   Hal G.P. Colebatch     Driving into Bunbury   Suddenly, with houses all around a flash of blue inlet, unfolding into green mangroves and white sacred ibis on a golden mudbank in the sun.   Hal G.P. Colebatch     To an unnecessary light   I got up to piss one night And for no good reason (I could see and aim quite well without it) Switched on the light. The urine was red.…

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