Childhood impressions — teenage yearning — spiritual searching — life experiences. For some strange reason I’ve always had the instinct to write these things down in poetic form.

Sometimes setting things down seems to make them more real, and open the door to further insight; and it’s only now, as an old lady, that I notice how often I’ve been asking questions. That, I think, is how the soul grows and discovers itself; and poetry has been my way of exploring life’s meaning.

Untasted Love. . 4
My Mother’s Corsets. . 6
The Toothy Grin with No Face Around It. . 8
Spirit of Wonder. . 10
You. . 14
Silence. . 15
Memories. . 16
Response. . 19
Love Incarnate. . 20
A Letter to My Soul-Mate. . 21
Deep Water. . 25
Enlightenment. . 30
Glorious Enigma. . 35
Enlightenment — a Postscript. . 36
Everywhere I Go. . 38
Holy Hologram. . 40
By the Sauna. . 44
Dappled Shadow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Dead Heart. . 47
Only Then . . . . 51
Strange Ambivalence!. . 52
The Perfumed Garden. . 54
Old Lovers. . 55
Julie at the Opera House. . 56
Summer Rain. . 59
Meditation. . 61
The Me Tree. . 63
Siamese Twins. . 65
Trivia. . 66
An Arcane Adventure. . 67
Morning Meditation. . 76

Play of Fear. . 79
Two-Way Mirror. . 83
See Ya!. . 84
The Key to the Theory of Everything. . 86
Now. . 88
Beyond the Biological Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
City Streets. . 91
Munda Nyuringu. . 93
Fellow Traveller. . 96
Passacaglia. . 99
Moonlight. . 101
Camping with Rambo. . 103
On the Dual Sexuality of the Common Garden Snail. . . . 106
The Gardener. . 108
Walking the Desert. . 110
Moonshine Magic. . 112
Metaphors and Mysteries. . 114
Delphic Oracle. . 120
Light. . 122
Linked Haiku. . 124
Dreams. . 125
Daemons. . 128
They Say . . . . 132
The Clay Statuette. . 133
In Winter in Mallacoota. . 139
Guru. . 144
Cronesong. . 145
When I Was Young . . . . 146
Peripeteia. . 149
Confumony . 150
In the Arms of Thanatos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Being Myself. . 154
Recognition. . 155
Lesser Gods. . 157
Luminescence. . 158
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