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From: Vol.02 N.01 – Otherkind

Sunrise Andaman Sea

by Tony Page

5 am still dark motorbike dew

night’s nectar no one awake

 

speed sheer round curves

mangroves to the right

 

limestone on the left

stretching north enigma

 

questions the opal air

eyes hungry for light

 

hide in excess of orchids

trespass the garden

 

hope no one hears

reach shore of content

 

hint of breeze furrows

the water with tropic code

 

here I sink into sand

dawn front row seat

 

sunrise of the secret

this time revealed or not

Published: January 2015
Tony Page

is a Melbourne poet, whose third book Gateway to the Sphinx (Five Islands) appeared in 2004. For 20 years, he worked in Thailand and Malaysia, but now lives in Australia. He has also written for the stage, with Who Killed Caravaggio?  completed in 2009. Recently published in Eureka Street, The Australian Poetry Journal, The Canberra Times, Right On, Peril and Otoliths, he is now finalising a fourth collection of poetry.

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