10 Random Questions

1
We lived here a deep stratum of years.
The cafes are still spritzig and conversation.
Why don’t I recognize any of the faces?

2
The river is mirrorous, expectant.
It is poised in a lucidness of light.
Is it waiting for something big to happen?

3
When the vertical white pelicans
Scud across the twilight’s magenta water,
What are they thinking?

4
The honey-comb apartments lit
Like a cubist fresco on the night—
What story does each glowing cell contain?

5
Those blue wrens are tinctured water,
Which itself reflects the shy’s hue.
What colour are they beneath that exquisite dye?

6
A jade moon levitated above the lagoon.
Was it the water’s magnetism
That pulled it black below the horizon?

7
Those jacaranda-bloom mosaics
Patterning the slick side-walks—
Who crafted their wet scansion?

8
Carrying your ashes to the car—
The day was clear, reaching for the sky—
Does all our love come to only this?

9
Spectral jets fly across the airport glass,
Warped and buckled by window frames.
Where do they land when the panes end?

10
In the Great Australian Bight’s stratosphere,
The silver slipstream shimmers like shantung.
How can I stitch and wear these glorious clouds?
 

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