lyrical – Wordflower

The Ant Explorer, by C. J. Dennis, 1876 [with audio] 11 February 202611 February 2026

Bearing 9 February 20269 February 2026

acoustic guitar, microphone and a couple of computers on a small desk in the background, like a home recording studio setup

Creative crush 4 February 20267 February 2026

Defrag / Unflag 31 January 202631 January 2026

A different day — an ocean pool — more forgetting — a smile that once would have fluttered a heart — no scalpels and luck holds firm 29 January 202629 January 2026

Ein Sommertag, par Χαρούμενη Ελιά [Charoúmeni Eliá]* 23 January 202626 January 2026

view of mainly blue sky with light cloud and a slim slice of ocean at the bottom. There is a bronze sculpture of a woman at the right hand side, looming large

At the local swimming pool — the only one with unbarbered legs and no towel, chocolates dragging me down — but the sky is blue 17 January 202613 January 2026

page of a notebook showing writing and drawings. the drawings are of a life-size cockroach and an enlarged tardigrade or moss piglet. the notes relate to the poem and include its title

Sunset on the human race / A tardigrade could do better / Traditions get mangled, entangled, star-spangled / Genocide as a form of tourism: A slam poetry-esque Longette Lite* from the deviser 14 January 202614 January 2026

Crafty Witchery 12 January 2026

Rainbow lorikeet in a pink flowering gum

dendrosphere dreams 6 January 20266 January 2026