heat-seeking (leeches, westerns and the ‘long-term’ game)

[first published 30.11.2024 Substack] After some heavy days of oven heat, we are now in a ‘rain event’. Back to the grey. I don’t mind. The rain comes and goes in sky-high veils, blowing across the yard and the cliff-face beyond. The little birds (the littlest bird left home and like a bad mother, I… Continue reading heat-seeking (leeches, westerns and the ‘long-term’ game)

wrestling with a mosquito net (mist and small birds)

[first published 15.11.2024 on Substack ] It’s misty here in the cool temperate hills of NSW, Australia. Cool, temperate – both words sitting carefully in some kind of restraint, a withholding. And this caution is folded around me these days – like an enormous swathe of tulle I can’t quite figure out how to fold… Continue reading wrestling with a mosquito net (mist and small birds)