Vekhi

A series of poems I pub­lished in 1987–88 and sold for a dollar to my fellow Year 11 and Year 12 students.

• Trauma centre
• The cage
• Cross-coun­try
• A response (for Tony Connors)
• Excuse me while I change left feet
• Let the knife be swift
• Lamb’s blood
• On Being Under the Age of 20
• Links
• The Excav­a­tion (an ode to writer’s block)
• Framed in Grey
• Self-defin­i­tion
• Trip to the Mountains
• To Yev­geny Yevtushenko
• real­ity is for people who can’t handle drugs
• Mid­night; black-tie;b.y.o.
• Unso­li­cited Advice
• Elegy for Tracey