painting
his despair
the red of a siren
Author: Gavin Austin
Gavin Austin lives in Sydney, Australia and writes fiction, free verse and Japanese form poetry. His work has been published in many Australian journals and anthologies, been broadcast on Australian Community Radio, and has been successful in numerous writing competitions. Gavin's writing has also appeared in literary publications in NZ, the USA and the UK. Gavin was the featured poet in the January 2016 edition of cattails. His poetry collection (short and long poetry) titled Shadow Play was published in 2010.
valley mist
the things
I might have been
all the shades
of a curlew’s cry
sunset shore
watercolour hills
the sunrise bleeds
into blue
between heartbeats
a breath
of hyacinths
silver heron
a splash of moonlight
across the pier
broken marriage
bedrock
of the dry creek
high-plains hut
the swirl
of the milky way
deep fern-gully
the magpie’s warble curls
through mist
boundary fence
the sunrise snags
on barbed wire