(2018) Karl and Amanda
Photos from the wedding of the year, Karl Howard and Amanda Kate Easson at St Mary’s Cathedral, then at the Museum of Contemporary Arts on 19 May 2018.
Photos from the wedding of the year, Karl Howard and Amanda Kate Easson at St Mary’s Cathedral, then at the Museum of Contemporary Arts on 19 May 2018.
Between words:
Suspended
Like a gull’s wing
Cupping the wind
Before the bird
As if in thought
Swoops and snatches
A morsel in
Casual vigour.
In warm December 1792
the Atlantic sails. Port Jackson
wails and Bennelong’s family,
Yemmerrawanne’s too,
watch ’til the ship’s a speck
beyond view.
The rumours, all true?
Was your character all surface?
Or were you a clear picture
of fountaining moods?
Green-blue sea of promise:
I bob to its surge,
waist then face submerged,
salty water up my nose,
lips a Plimsoll line,
toes a gimbal on sand
ready for the ocean.