February 2011
2 posts
Of Stars and Nightingales
“Give her plenty of space
Let her think it’s a race
To the wall at the end of it all
And she’ll bounce back into place”
Years ago, when I was a student in Brisbane, I was playing piano for a 60th birthday celebration. The party took place in a lovely home filled with lovely people and I remember the piano was a well-loved old Steinway, a little out of tune - a grandpa piano with stories to...
pluto
eccentricity mustn’t be rewarded
we must keep our ordinary orbit
When I was a little boy, i was *obsessed* with outer-space, with stars and planets and solar-systems and galaxies, with supernovae and nebulae, with the rings of Saturn, the craters on the moon and Jupiter’s stormy red spot!
I had stars ‘n’ planets wallpaper in my bedroom, I had a “Return of the...
