Port Arthur 1
Once the neck
led to my holiday home,
where the sand
on a White Beach
stared at a cold blue sea.
Along the road
was a Remarkable Cave
where the angry ocean
attacked a corroding
corridor of rock ...
I appear there still
in a family snapshot,
young and vulnerable,
looking back, aghast,
as water engulfs
its outer reaches
and surges toward me.
Today I sit among the ruins,
unphotographed.Port Arthur 2
I lay in the roofless church
staring up at blue.
My breathing sounds
like the sea.
The sun
warms my convict bones.
I see flags
flying high above the earth's atmosphere.
Postcards
from eternity.