6.The Town I Loved So Well: Images of Gawler SA. 'Silky Blue Grass'
Silky Blue Grass Dichanthium sericeum after a small woven grass basket made by a local Kaurna Aboriginal woman before white settlement...
Comic Verse 4
©Jeff Guess 2017
xiv. Signs and Wonders - Rivers
River (noun) early 13c., from Anglo-French rivere, Old French riviere "river, riverside, river bank" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *riparia...
5.The Town I Loved So Well: Images of Gawler SA. 'Morning Walk'
The South Para River flowing under the old disused railway bridge. Morning Walk I went out into the world with a world draped around my...
xiii. Signs and Wonders - Honey
Honey: Old English hunig, from West Germanic khunaga, Old Norse hunang, Swedish honung, German Honig, Welsh canecon ‘gold’. Living in the...
4 Markings - Poetry
Every word in a poem is a deliberate complex chain of creative choice. ©Jeff Guess 2017
3 Markings - The Future of Literature
'To find a form that accommodates the mess,' said Samuel Beckett, 'that is the task of an artist'. ©Jeff Guess 2017
xii. Signs and Wonders - Figs
Figs: Early 13c. From Old French figue, from Old Provencal figa, from Vulgar Latin fica, from Latin ficus. The Great Depression On the...
xi. Signs and Wonders - Bread
Bread: Old English, bread ‘bit, crumb, morsel; bread,’ Old English breotan ‘to break in pieces’. Lives from a Country Town i. The woman...
