Kevin Gillam is a West Australian writer. His first book of poems, entitled Other Gravities, was published in 2003, and he has had numerous other poems appear in journals and literary magazines throughout Australia and New Zealand. He works in Perth as a secondary school music teacher, free-lance 'cellist and creative writing tutor.

Monday's Poem

© Kevin Gillam


in we

we're twigs poked in silt of stream and
years flow from fresh to salt to dream and
we is same in you and me

and tads flit from fin to leg, from
swim to hop to frog and
we is same in you and me

and months daub sky when I'm all March
and you May but mud is thick (so they say) and
we is same in you and me

and leaves taint home from clean to tea
then rush of rain and
we is same in you and me

and breeze is hush and touch and prayer
as bee drinks and shirrs skin 'tween you and me and
we is same in we