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Title Page
smoke encrypted whispers
acknowledgments
of muse, meandering and midnight
a prelude
magnesium girl
after 2a.m.
back seat driver
on the river
waiting for the good man
raindrops fall in vain
chloe in the window box
the postman’s privilege
musing: the graveyard shift
new farm is closed
white stucco dreaming
the crooked men
brown water looting
jetty nights
carefree
deadman’s mouth harp
a verse for the cheated
the fatal garden
radio thick blood
midnight’s boxer
surgery music
a bent neck black and flustered feather mallee
the gloom swans
a black bird of my mind
fly-fishing in woolloongabba
shout-me-a-wine requiem
crust
the writer’s suitcase
midnight’s plague
labelled
for the wake and skeleton dance
the dingo lounge
valley man
cheap white-goods at the dreamtime sale
the mosquito room
mudflat
it starts
1986
boondall wetlands
poem 9
once was a rifle range
the kabul manifest
hotel bone
the job
hotel bone
when dogs gamble
the late shift erupts
bone yard, south brisbane
itinerant blues
cold storage
the dusk sessions
kangaroo crossing
what more
we’re not truckin’ around
nil by mouth
the golden skin of cowgirls
floodlight sonatas
abandoned factories
scenes from a getaway car
night racing
3a.m. escape
pre-flight
95 cents a litre
deo optimo maximo
gasoline
literary festival bump-out
itinerant blue
products of mexico
gas tank sonnets
sunday
the last bullfighter
back road
sultry gridlock musings
brunswick st blues
ambulance chaser
talking to the airplanes
three-legged dogs
fire
the night house
jaded olympic moments
without regret
future primitive
the night train from newcastle
sortie
the finder’s fee
skeletons in the trunk
the thousand-yard stare
king
last exit to brisbane...
hollow squall
smoke encrypted whispers
warning:
smoke signals
tigerland
scared of the dark
wecker road
cribb island
capalaba
rip
smoke water
author’s notes #1
darkroom
fisherman islands
paper trails to midnight
author’s notes #2
ghosts of boundary street
dog tired tune
when I crossed the ditch...
author’s notes #3
the dust company
from boundary street, west end, to the berlin wall, east germany
snapshots
aunty grey smoke
author’s notes—conclusion
revolver
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