The Red Center Collection
Desert concert
As the silhouette of desert dissolved in the twilight
The night symphony of cicadas unveiled
Rock wallaby at the Simpsons Gap
Last beam of sunlight
Swaying in the summer breeze
Silky tail of a rocky buddha
Larapinta drive
Last nights’ desert rain
Painted the Red Center Way
Fifty shades of green
Mid-day refreshment
Hottest hours of the summer day
Flat out like a desert lizard
Reading Masaoka Shiki
Passengers of different times
Stroking, stippling, scumbling
Painters of the red dunes
Goana, dingo, and me
Mereenie loop
One after another
Desert horse shit
Scent of spring grasses
Desert ghost
Whistling ghost gum
Silent red cliff
Valley of the wind
Desert oaks
Drooping leaves of desert she-oaks
Lady's long hair flows down
Swaying in the wind
Garden of eden
That pond I paused at last morning
Only a lively grebe
Darting and diving
Moon plain of Coober Pedy
Punctured, pubescent, and tuberculated
Like an unpolished beetle elytron
Beauty in simplicity
Storm is coming
Those clouds lined up like
Parallel dunes of the Simpsons
Mirrored onto the sky
Love of Triodia
Looks fluffy
In fact spiky
Porcupine grass
The resident and the nomad
The blooming desert fig
Imprisoned between rugged stones
Invites a sneaky pied honeyeater
Rainy night at Desert Spring
Wavering palm invites
The scent of rusty sand
Desert rain
Simpsons gap at sunrise
First sun ray sneaked into the narrow valley
Splash of a billabong frog
朝阳探幽谷
蛙跃孤潭底
Campground hospitality
Racing to greet my arrival
A cheerful pigeon
Forgot to braid her hair
天热
厕所水洗面
眉尖凉意生
Unexpected encounter
Munching chips while watching pigeons
A perentie
Scouted my tent!
Kings Canyon
Wrinkled sandstone
Sneer of fleeting time
Tales of an inland sea
The squawking fruitivore
Echos of a curious bowerbird
Hidden in a desert fig
Clinging to the red cliff
Macrozamia
Beneath the fans of a lonely cycad
Dodging the blazing desert sun
Contemplate a once humid past
沙漠里尿尿
斜风中
画银钩
Desert mentality
In the Wet Tropics, wish a sunny day
In the Red Center, pray a good rain
Endless road
Green fields of mulga
Red blanket of sand
Road poetry
Desert survival
Ghost gum on red cliff
Ivory victory juxtaposed
Against fiery adversity
You will never miss
Those locals that broke your walking pace
Babbling babblers
Family business in the air
夜雨
灯摇
蛩音落
夏日剃新头
古榕抽新芽
夏凉绿意浓，风清蝉音落
斜阳竹影动，江晚暮色沉
Miscellaneous poems
Dusk
Screeching in the reeds
Swamp-hens get territorial
Summer wetland
One continent, two springs
Yellow kapoks of Kimberley
Golden wattles of Canberra
Two shapes of warmth
Last walk at Barren Grounds
I tread lightly upon the sunlit path
My weary feet
kissed by the morning drew
Misty mountain road
I drove through pockets of invisibility
Where the fog was thickest
Only to glimpse on bloated roos glittering frost
Budding flowers in the late autumn
Snowflakes from last winter
Perched on moonlit boughs
Early arrival?
Emerging blossums from the far north
过片马风雪垭口
风雨飘摇姚家坪，乱石翻卷路泥泞
雾锁深山咽鸟音，云横垭口意难平
千山冷暖层林暗，峰回路转山色明
露凝幽谷残花落，崖生孤木空蝉鸣
舒卷流云随心去，且听风吟且徐行
夜深沉
云低
远山吟
格窗半掩
玉帘低垂
楼外鹦哥声声吟
蓝松斜倚
枝头点点
晶莹夏雨阵阵晴
Being seen
First fog of autumn
In a quiet corner
A rose blooms
Harbinger of spring
Pacific koels from the far north
Landed on my porch
Spring knocks the door
Dusk
Into the fading light the intermittent shrieking of a blackbird dissolves
Above the gnarly gumtree a full moon slowly arises
Pilotbird
Chorus of lyrebirds echoed across mossy woods
Beneath sunlit tree ferns
A rusty bird sang a tune of a distant time
Swamp Banksia
Wrinkled trunk sprinkled by the mossy light
That ancient giant snap frozen in mud and time
Autumn colour by the street
Brushstrokes of autumn rains
Set clouds of summer leaves ablaze
Winter ants
Swollen bellied ants
Trapped in my rice cooker
Food or freedom?
风声，雨声，雷声
起坐掩和服
鸟鸣，蛙鸣，虫鸣
斜卧入眠乡
夏夜的凉风啊
竹影摇
星斗斜
Light snow 小雪
Heavy clouds over the southern land
Might there be light snow?
In the far north
Two worlds of whiteness
Dream of snowfalls in the far north
Awakening next morning
Burgeoning pear blossoms in the far south
Winter solstice
A dream of frozen stars that melted in shoreless seas of winter night
Crystallized again on boundless earth
As a bridal gown of morning frost
Frosty Canberra morning
Fog enshrined winter
Shivering on a street lamp
Shadow of a white cockatoo
Beautiful firetail
Flickering flame swept across the grassy sea
That cool dude wearing sunnies
Sent bleak winter heath in glee
Min min light
Min min lights from the deep sky
Eye beams of immortals
Peeking into the earthly land
柳眉轻拢，玉帘低垂
夜来幽梦步庭前
鸮啼楼外三两声
云淡跫音恬
红霞时节，合欢折几枝
恰恰早莺俏林缘
试看古今事
从来几声弦
夏夜听雨
灯前
品荔枝
沙漠里尿尿
斜风中
画银钩
Parting ways
When cherry blossoms fell like snow flakes of the last winter
We stood in the gentle wind
Of two distant hemispheres
Fleeting life
Withering wisteria
Did I miss
The coming spring
Dusk
In the last beam of daylight I heard
Chatters of little blue wrens
Barren Grounds
Misty heathland touched by morning rays
Boy’s fresh haircut
Barren Grounds
Whoops poops
On the wooden decking of my balcony
I stumbled upon droppings of red and purple
In a distant fruiting tree
A currawong laughed and flew away
Lab accident
Blood-stained labcoat
Cherry blossoms sliced by glassy wind
Fallen onto winter snow
过广州忆往昔
岭南多风物，云游值茂年
把酒问春光，共饮珠江畔
蹄花如火江如练，迷醉千秋渡
最喜江南梦，鸮啼月下竹
竹下琴棋响，榕须随风舞
雨疾风骤堪读史，云淡又雕虫
蝉音如昨日，秋光逝华年
石阶青苔瘦，古木绿蕨肥
过往音容皆梦影，琉璃砖红依旧