BABYSITTING

a cold flicker
reflects off walls

lizard's tongue
almost too fast
for the eye

***

player makes
the touch down, yeh!

in mirror glass
a yellow cab
breaks hard

new brown brief case
safe in his grip

mind elsewhere
she shoplifts
baby clothes

yeah yeah yeah after
the show

to go
pepperoni pizza
with shakes

shadow
on the electric chair

empty room
only the buzz
of a blow fly

***

lupin flower trembles in
swollen stream

avenue
of jacaranda trees
drop their blue

two stars -- three
along the centre line