LIKE A TEDDY BEAR: IT IS STILL RAINING Untickled bear on a sculpture seat ignoring the rain that isn’t going into the water tanks that aren’t there and the ghost mulberry still trying to cast shade but buddleia medlar warrigal greens drunk on rainwater and light however grey / apricot, crab apple with flogged blossom…

It wouldn’t stop raining today so I took a walk through my bookshelves and around Andy…I found this book in 1995 or so, in a box full of oddments in the corridor outside Collected Works in Flinders Lane. NOT FINISHED LIKE STUD / EXAMPLES, CLASS, OF NOW A WELL-KNOWN ROUGH COLLECTION / TRAINS CHOSEN BY…

BRUNSWICK EAST/CARLTON NORTH BORDER 25/10/2022 Closer to home now and no railway except the linear green ghost of one and a station where the neighbourhood lives. It’s very familiar at the start by the bike shop until the line pushes me down alleyways that are weedy, plashy underfoot, are sometimes almost too artful, and never…

EAGLEMONT, VICTORIA 3084: 24/10/22 There is a fairy grotto with an ancient looking bottle of hand sanitiser sitting on the Blinky Bill tree stump, and as you walk out of the station underpass Burley Griffin is everywhere and nowhere baby: around the station the buildings are strangely tatty, rejects from an art deco slide night.…