“Like an invisible army; but no footfalls move.”

“Like a man among the dark trees holding a lantern”

“But no footfalls move over the soft red dust, no shadow ruffles.”

“But”
“But indeed oh indeed.”

“And dipped her toe in weeds and so we caught her.”

“There is an angel in the fishpond.”

“It wakes its yellow wings above the water.”

“Look, look…”
“Or say…”

'Perfect' used repetitively

It is the snow-gum silently, in noon's blue and the silvery

“Like flakes of soft grey stone.”

“And the silver light like ecstasy.”

“The sea turns green and silver.”

“With the same cool colours the same white rushing immensity.”

“Of garfish or mullet and pull like a horse in the breakers.”

“And may be again in the wild white rolling of time.”

"Poor lump of movable clay"

“I see the dewdrop trembling upon the rushes.”

“Old pig, old bear, old bristly and gingery.”

“And still in a whirring hush of wings the bent old tea-tree flowers.”

“Bursting and foaming, spinning and gushing, secret above the stream.”

“Storm upon storm of snow-white moths from the midst of its cloud of flowers.”

“The galaxies swarm like snow.”

“Such a blaze of snow, such a smoke of sleet,..”

“Like a pine in the rain”

"shuffling along in her broken shoes from the slums"

"Dark...black"

"Look there is dark hands in the black rock"

"They seem to move"