Bounty: Prose Poetry

PROSE POETRY + PHOTOGRAPHY: 

This collection of prose poetry will surprise, astound, delight, tell a story, and provide you with an effortless read. Along with images, the poetry is created so that you can enjoy little blocks of prose that act like word pictures. The objects / subjects in the poetry are mostly given a narrative voice rather than written from a personal perspective. Moreover, this collection is subversive, adroit, deceptively plain-speaking, unpremeditated, and packaged in prose that stands alone in a crazy logic of its own.

 

COPYRIGHT MATERIAL (c) 2024 - Please note: the following poem is available for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act.

Bee Season

 

The selection is strong if the scent is not awkward, and how soon an ordinary bee chooses colour over colour in the noir crop of nasturtiums, a considerable collection of nasturtiums in gold and yellow bright orange and something in between. The bee circulates the bed for it is spring and the open flowers are laden with pollen there is nothing quite flattening about the open petals they are displayed outwards not round perhaps slightly ovoid and monstrously vibrant against the green saucer leaves, an occasional resource to hide behind either from shadow or menace and since the bee is busy his presence is a splendid sequestering of his slick slick sticky in order to be clever this little insect cannot collect the same thing if the petals are closed and partly to dally is a measure of empty and this particular bee has a custom a plan a measure of length to stay and only to break away with the excess he needs and this shows filling.

 

 

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2nd Edition: The Ozone Cafe -SUPER DEAL @ ,99 cents for a Limited Time Only

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The Personal Story behind The Ozone Café

I'd like to reveal a little of the setting of my 2^nd novel The Ozone Café.  The literary world often states for writers, “write what you know”. I have used my hometown in the setting of the novel, however the names have been changed to protect…yes no novelist wants to be sued or face undue litigation esp. when one writes about a corrupt shire. It was common knowledge in the area, that because the Ozone Café sat on prime property (a stone’s throw from the beach), it attracted the moguls and thus disappeared through dubious means.

Ettalong Beach, New South Wales

Ettalong was and has always been a small community lifestyle: a population of less than 5,000, an older community with shopfronts like the cake shop, chemist, newsagents, banks and supermarket. It hasn’t changed in 50 years. There’s fishing, prawning, oysters in the myriad of waterways that is known as Broken Bay which sprawls to Gosford and is known as the Brisbane Water District. What has replaced the café is a very large monolith resort-type building that I understand is not liked nor valued by the locals. Well, it’s a holiday venue for the “rich”.

I went to Ettalong Primary, and then later attended Gosford High School. As a teenager and even younger I frequented the café with girlfriends, esp.one in particular named, Heather. We would have a milkshake, buy lollies, click on the jukebox and if we had any money left we’d slide a twenty shilling piece into one of the pinball machines. Looking back, it was actually a challenge to enter the Ozone café as it was daily occupied by Bodgies and Widgies. They were the rock-n-roll gangs of the sixties, rather harmless, but I guess it was the leather jackets, the chewing gum and sneers that made you feel uncomfortable. Nevertheless, the café was so close to the beach, that after a swim that being hungry we often bought an icy-pole or ice-cream. So, my local teenage haunt was a vivid memory that I would never forget.

When my younger brother, still living in the area, told me that the Ozone had been pulled down, I wanted to write the story of life inside its walls and its ultimate destruction.

The Ozone Café, with three separate owners therefore, is the nemesis of my story and its demise through council corruption. 

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