Instant fix

photo of a large gumtree with piles of wood placed nearby

Hundred-year-old tree
cut down for high-end timber
it’s fine, we’ll plant more

An end

Photo of the sun setting behind tall buildings

Fireball in the sky
ominously sinks to earth
darkness is nigh here

Hidden

closeup photo of the stigma and style of a hibiscus flower

Raising its arm high
to be seen, heard, recognised,
back bench hibiscus.

Blinds up

Amidst our blindness
rising through indifference—
relentless sun.

Neighbourhood watch

photo of a gumtree on the side of the road, its root systems bursting out of the ground with crevices visible on the road

Charging through the ground,
guardian of wayward souls—
gumtrees on the street.