Drift Wood and pallet material Shelves

From the beach
from industry
keeping the
small things
within reach

drift wood
adrift on walls
eye level
and useful

Door Stop.

It has been a while since I posted anything.
Have moved to a new city. Started a new phase in business and generally settling in.

Needed a door stop in the previous abode.
Had a collection
Of collected stuff
Threw it together
As you do.

Door Stop
Emerged...

Heavy!

Steel I Beam
Macrocarpa Slab
Bed legs
Cupboard handle
Glue

Shitty Blue Tarp (A Poem)

Scrap of blue tarp
weathered and worn
an attempt to keep nature at bay
shredded 
whispering in the rooftop breeze

and yet
still so blue

and I ask myself
who decided that it would be blue?
and 'that' blue

I remember a trip to samoa
or was it fiji
blue tarps over homes
cars, shelters and decks

weather 
whipping
frustratingly, unruly and ugly

olive green maybe
even a steel blue if you must 
but no
a shonky cheap and cheerful blue

and it now flaps
skinny, shitty
frayed and fearless upon the roof of ruin
one of Christchurch's many old
now utterly hopeless memories
a memory flagged 
by a sickly insufficient
and artlessly cheap rendition
of blue.