ANNOUNCEMENT: New e-book

Oh, I am madly excited!!! My poetry collection, SECRET LEOPARD: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1974-2005, has just been reissued as an ebook, via my favourite publisher Content X Design. (Thank you, Delaina and Kristin!) 

 You can get it for only $2.99 USD in whatever format suits you (mobi for Kindle, epub for other e-readers or pdf for your computer). 

 Lots of wonderful poems, if I do say so myself :) and you won't find them on my blog! 

(There are still a VERY few paperback copies left which I am now selling for $10 USD — and to Aussies $10 AUD — plus postage. You'll have to message me if you want one of them.) 

Here is the link to the ebook.

My cat sleeps

my cat sleeps well

on the couch beside me

I am safety

They cascade

they cascade

warm orange bright gold

down the vase

spilling fresh fragrance 
my friend's nasturtiums

Mystery Unsolved

I step outside 

to the immediate strong smell of smoke

but none to see.

Clear blue skies in every direction

are interrupted 

by the tops of hills and mountains.

The quiet street

is undisturbed.

When I step back inside the smell is gone.

(I could get in my car and go hunting

but there's coffee here

and a book to read.)