Dave Drayton

   
 

Excerpts from Waterfalls

C M G W P T W
H I O O A A H
A N O R C L A
N D D L K K T
G E S D A
E D G W
A F E O
F P O S N
R R P R D
Y I O T B E
N N U I R
H T D N G
O E T
U S P F O
R C O G I W
S R T O S N
E A O H
I E T D C
N N O I O
T E T N M
E S S H E
S C I T
T A O N I B
I L F G M A
N E S E C
E T K
A H I
E N

 

change packages wonder back in time

   what hours minded talk?

      print a world fortune in

         the scale of things come good

 

H S T R T B C O S S
I T H E H A O F P L
T R E T E C V A E
E A K E H C E
T E U I R R O E P
H T P N H T I N E
E I E O N O U R
O T N G U N
W F H G G T R I
R F E R H E T
I A E E Y P
T T F N A E A S
I H I O T B S E
N E R T L G S A
G E H O U A
C E F E M P C
O L S R E O U
N I I C C C R
M D B H H O K T
T B E R I A F E A
H I N R T I
E T H C A G D N
H A K E E R
G E N P R A U S
O G I A T E T
I N P B H O
T N E E N
O G R D E

 

pocket another great paper stone

   the writing, retaining death covering the eye

   to honour space off to the side

   climb in the fire   pass the sea

 

M W T G B S B R
U H R R L Y O O
T I U A A D A Y
E S M C C N T A
T P E K E L
N L E F Y D
E I T U R I
C N E L I S A
K G R V P G
S A E I R
L D S R D A
A I A E M
K V R A L R
E E O A B
U S N R E
S T N H C A L
O Y D O E C L
N R T T I S
G E M N
A F H G S
W A I L E O
H R D O R R A
O O E W D E P
O U N E C
P T R O R
E C R E
R O D D
B S

 

maiden records mute whistling a song about graceful

trumpeters black as Sydney

 

A A O D T O E W B
L L N I H N V E U
L L E N O E E E R
S S N U R K N
A E G T
S O R H H S Y R
F A W T E O E E
A I N M U A A
S D I B O G R D
H H N E T H I
I A E T F H T Y N
O N A O E E G
N D R C R R D A
T A E A R
A D R Y Y
O T E A O T
S N H N U D I
O E E W D A M
R A H Y E
T H F R M A
O A D O P W T
A U C S R P E I
R T N I E M
W S B I L K E
H M L N Y
I A O G
L T O
E H D

 

while hours sort the time the time sought all before

morning and thought one other  day    week    year

done

 

M C T N V A
O L H A O I
N E E M L R
E A E T W
Y R F A A
A F G Y
D A C R E
A N E A B
Y D U M R
O G O E
L P F H U A
I R T S T
S E I E H
T S S W I
E I R N
M N M T E G
E T Y H S
N P
F M H O
O L I I N
U Y D G S
T D H E
I L
O N E Z
F T O
O N
E

 

men fraught with breathing name

the present and pay out of

response money into my fly

 

 
   

Dave Drayton was an amateur banjo player, Vice President of the Australian Sweat Bathing Association, a founding member of the Atterton Academy, and the author of P(oe)Ms (Rabbit), Haiturograms (Stale Objects dePress) and Poetic Pentagons (Spacecraft Press).