last supper
when
the french
invaded
milano and
all
that bronze
earmarked
for his
giant
sculpture was
turned
into ammunition
leonardo
sadly noted
the
world preferred
cannon
to horse
unbowed
his obsession
with
proportion later
made
those monks
think
each evening
jesus
and gang
dined
with them
krishnamurti farewells annie besant
no
need to
fill
the silence
let
it spread
without
an edge
beyond
shackles of
thought
and time
shed
what we're
never
wedded to
spill
all spells
that
ground us
and
forever clip
our
restless senses
love
is beauty
in
the now
papal
bulls
when
portugal
and
spain divided
the
world between
them
with blessing
of
the papacy
(columbus
bumbling
into
the new world
da
gama sailing off
the
map to india
and
magellan further
circumnavigating
across
the pacific)
merchants
of venice
contemplated
fishing
stum
accidental
as
a
friendship
that
becomes
a
lifeline
more
to it
the
unexpected
than
gossip
or
explanation
words
are
too
cheap
so
we
will
pay
the
price
for
silence
patrick bourke
long
ago
before
they outlawed
really
good drugs
mother’s
father
lived
with blacks
tall
streak of irish catholic
jackaroo
shearer bush lawyer
camp
fire raconteur
helped
build highways
that
brought the false
promise
of civilisation
in
his forties
settled
in brisbane
still
went walkabout when
work
was scarce
taught
himself to
write
left handed
said
it made for
neater
hand writing
his
was copybook
his
words were whittled
into
sinewy poetry
became
involved in unions
men
respected his honesty
they
offered him a
safe
seat in parliament
told
them he’d rather
potter
around his garden
supplied
the local church
with
all their flowers
his
grandchildren remember
he
smelt of port
his
fingers stained from
too
many rollies
his
garden was a jungle
roses
vines trestles staghorns
his
little cottage obscured
his
grandchildren remember
best
his stories of
long
ago
Terry Wheeler - After graduating from law school in the late 1980s Terry worked in the Australian public service for decades. He was inspired to write after seeing Michael Dransfield poems in The Australian newspaper when a teenager. Terry has been published in Australia and abroad since retiring. He lives in Brisbane when not travelling.
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