IMPOSSIBILITIES
‘Something totally unexpected, like a barking cat.’
- Mary Oliver
The sun burning in a night sky
a dream from which
you cannot waken
breathing deep within the sea
a heart that beats and will not die
a tide that does not return
paper and straw
that will not burn
passing yourself coming back
from some intended destination
some lack of sin
that leads to retribution
finding flowers that shouldn’t
bloom in winter
learning
that so much beauty
can’t outlast the spring
walking along an endless shore
thinking that life
should somehow provide
one lifetime more.
- Shane McCauley
CHILLI CRAB
Muddy torpor of island water
lapping the pier
froth
frisking in the shadows
city-island a boat ride away
but here within the veranda’s
blister of sunshine
delicious
mess of crabs
cold sweating bottle of Tiger beer
and later
replete
such a glory of returning
the dolphin-boat
leaping over so many mirrors.
- Shane
McCauley
Shane McCauley is a well-published Australian writer who lives in Perth. He has published many books of poetry with Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Platypus Press and - recently - Sunline Press. He is also a well-known and much respected writing workshop coordinator, TAFE lecturer and teacher for OOTA - Out of the Asylum - a writing group based at Fremantle Arts Centre.
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