From Vincentia, Jervis Bay
Peter J. F. Newton
[photo: Judy Newton 2008]
Poetry
- Just before stormfall, Manly Beach
- Nine lives for a young girl busking
- Lachrymosa for the Snake I Killed
- Personal Development - Firt Lesson
Simply Australia
- home
Curiously, modest holiday homes
become mostly translated
into elaborate reconstructions
of that escaped.
Lacking simplicity, bush
is often supplanted
by the superconcrete kitsch
of suburbia.
Occasionally, benality
is marred irrevocably
by the rare white beauty
of the sands
as, sneakily, the tangled undergrowth
of politely pared lawns
reveals a full ochre sun reflecting
on the uncluttered bay.
- Peter J. F. Newton
