two poems submitted and rejected

NOTE: These two poems were written on a cold Canberra winter day when the mecury was not into double figures. One in the morning, while talking the dog for a walk, and then in the evening, after work on the walk home from the bus stop.

AM
shhsshshhssh

ind ear
    lee mumffled
    mairning

missd rise sings
off the creekly
        vairlley

co mingo
   d air
   wit frost n
   mistnfog

All confusio
    shamfaced

andeye aloof

tink of mema bing dead
n all


PM
And the wind full of outer space...

1 big star
1 small star

    ova tree trees
   
n d night
    is snuglyng
    setlyng nwit

        each home coale scing
foot fawl the skj
dankns cloud hiss

clear jetclaire

    but 4 1
    long livd
        lentamente
        spreding

    con
    tail

jet aeroplain

vi
si
ti
ng

vandles