static

This blog is kind of static now, but I’m doing more or less the same thing on twitter these days.

www.twitter.com/acidic

random

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ordinary magic

this blog was by Andrew Macrae.

things

things end.

birdsong

polyphony of birdsong.

laundry

a good day for drying laundry.

plastic

plastic toys.

business

the personality of a business card.

post-it

a post-it note from someone you love.

branch

a branch by the side of the road, shaped like a chicken’s foot.

false

false spring.

highway

driving on the highway, listening to Eno.

bin

bin night.

tail

clear sky and a tail wind.

gecko

a gecko on the face of a stone statue.

heart

my faint heart.

incandescent

my incandescent head.

patch

my patch of sky.

red

my red beard.

cold

drinking cold tea.

eclipse

lunar eclipse.

overheard

snatches of overheard conversation.

north

north wind.

razor

a new razor.

violence

the violence of sleep.

insomnia

insomnia’s gentle attrition.

gift

a gift.

running

running late.

ride

a bike ride to work.

avocado

avocado green, lime and tangelo still-life scene.

off

a day off.

late

sleeping late.

clouds

watching clouds.

somewhat

somewhat obsessive.

bone

bone china.

typewriter

an old typewriter.

furniture

rearranging the furniture.

time

time for bed.

burning

smell of burning hair.

church

burnt-out church.

bunting

bunting above a used-car lot.

stained

light shining through stained glass.

another

another crisp map.

creative

creative procrastination.

finding

finding a lost dog.

waiting

waiting in line.

two

two accordions.

library

chicks who hang out at the library.

falling

falling ash.

nail

nail polish.

lost

lost sock.

light

pink light.

iridium

iridium flare.

shooting

shooting star.

beautiful

beautiful lies.

final

final notice.

failure

another failure.

hailstones

hailstones bounce and skitter and gather in drifts.

tea

afternoon tea.

pain

memory of pain like the fading green afterimage of a bright light.

streetlights

a line of streetlights, blue and sodium orange.

swimming

swimming in salt water.

barber

a barber you can trust.

public

public transport.

ticket

discarded ticket.

black

black and tan.

first

first memory.

eggs

bacon and eggs and strong coffee.

messages

new messages.

letter

an old letter.

bare

bare trees outlined against the winter sky.

carpark

city seen in the distance from the roof of a suburban carpark.

moving

moving pictures.

note

writing a note with a mobile phone.

cold

cold comfort.

indie

indie rock.

marginalia

marginalia in borrowed books.

paths

glitter paths.

city

the city at night.

beers

afternoon beers.

mirror

the mirror trick.

rain

walking in the rain.

warm

cold day, warm cafe.

dawn

pink dawn fades and the clouds turn to grey.

washing

nine sequined costumes dance in the breeze on my neighbour’s washing line.

crack

a crack in the window catches a line of brittle light.

slow

slow death.

rust

rust stains on the sink.

driving

driving across town for lunch on a Tuesday.

coffee

coffee with milk.

heartache

heartache goes away.

ends

love never ends.

sound

painting with sound.

drain

drain cleaner.

misty

water condenses out of the misty air.

memory

unbidden memory.

objects

the way objects persist after their owner dies.

highrise

city seen from a highrise window.

love

love as strong as death.

aircraft

aircraft at night like stars.

spiderweb

spiderweb collapses under the weight of dust.

guitar

guitar strings vibrate under my fingers.

sun

sun shines.

socks

socks with sandals.

stillness

cold evening stillness

rusty

tape loop sound of a rusty bicycle.

sleepy

sleepy Sunday.

headlights

rain in the headlights.

haircut

new haircut.

blood

blood gushes into the pathology vial.

self-taught

we are all self-taught.

sounds

sounds that stand for things.

driving

driving clears my head.

windy

windy day.

steps

concave depression worn in old stone steps.

glass

broken glass underfoot.

desire

fickle desire.

running

my dog, running.

derelict

derelict grandstand.

night

walking at night.

repetition

repetition and variation.

low

low sky.

raindrop

distorted world seen through rain on the window.

clear

clear desk.

nectar

a wattlebird, inverted, eats nectar from the callistemon outside my window.

time

there is no lost time.

water

water over rock.

river

a river of tail lights.

dirt

red dirt.

sleep

sipping sleep’s sweet draught.

shriek

lorikeets shriek.

leaves

fallen leaves pattern green grass.

diesel

the smell of diesel.

mistake

a mistake.

truth

telling the truth, even though it hurts.

spine

a spine of high cloud.

silver

the moon shines silver squares on the bathroom floor.

underwater

underwater dreams.

house

on a windy night the house talks and inside the rooms, its lungs, the air is alive with motion.

occluded

moon occluded by clouds.

butts

cigarette butts dance in the gutter.

autumn

autumn rain.

lovers

two lovers on the train, talking on the phone.

peace

a moment of peace snatched from chaos.

screech

burnout screech mournful in the distance.

flies

black flies cluster on crusted blood.

storm

a storm that does not break.

cloudshapes

shifting cloudshapes, endless blue.

kip

afternoon kip.

streetlight

streetlight pools on the rainslick pavement.

whine

turbine whine of the police helicopter at night.

fingers

spirit fingers.

hob

sizzle and pop of chicken on the hob.

books

the smell of books.

wrong

wrong number.

slough

a thousand alternate lives slough like snakeskin.

new

new music.

wall

the sun lights the western wall of my local pub.

awkward

an awkward moment.

electric

a fat man squeezed into a tiny electric car.

friend

making a new friend.

kitchen

the way the kitchen smells after roast chicken with tarragon.

hand

his blue hand, so familiar, was cold clay to my touch.

newborn

newborn baby.

blinds

the moon, sliced by blinds, angles through my window.

empathy

empathy for other creatures.

mould

dusty grey mould grows on an uneaten orange in the fruitbowl.

season

the season changes.

smile

a stranger’s smile.

air

autumn air.

inside

sparks on the inside of my eyes.

oil

the rainbow stain of oil on stormwater.

neon

neon lights slide on a nighttime tram ride.

messages

coded messages.

orica

first quarter moon, rising over the Orica building.

photograph

sunset photograph.

time

change over time.

dog

my dog, dreaming.

laminate

dust’s slow laminate.

stick

a stick insect on the flyscreen, its cover blown.

centipede

a centipede, trapped in the bath, explores the boundaries of its world.

rubble

the formations rubble takes at a demolition site.

cornershop

cornershop smell, generic, unchanging.

colour

colour music.

crush

orgasm flares cold crush, flows warm flood.

skin

warm skin, autumn day.

motes

motes of dust suspended in liquid light.

weeds

a microcosm living in the weeds between concrete cracks.

endless

cool breeze, sunny morning; endless sky.

hair

thick, black hair scattered on the floor of the barbershop.

satellite

night sky satellite star tracks.

cake

poppy seed cake.

239

riding tram number 239.

antennas

radio frequency antennas in a grey sky.

words

words for colour.

freckles

freckles in polished calcium carbonate on a cowrie shell.

murder

seventeen crows make shifting kinetic patterns on the roof below my window.

sun

clean clothes off the line, smelling of sun.

gradient

sunset bleeds hemispheric gradient fill shining gold to pastel blue.

cooking

the alchemy of cooking.

stain

a spilled drink’s beautiful stain, shaped by inertia, on the star-flecked blue floor of the tram.

evening

the dissonant swell of evening cricketsong almost drowns out the sound of traffic.

rubbish

the pieces of personal mystery that neighbours let slip on hard rubbish day.

silence

meniscus

caught in the exquisite surface tension between sleeping and waking, pushing against the meniscus of consciousness.

way

walking home a different way.

rain

rain hisses static splatter on a sleepy Saturday morning.

dragonfly

a dragonfly, shimmering green segmented body and shivering transparent wings, eyes oddly askew, fading from the world on a park bench.

air

a silver speck, held by the weight of air, rides a widening white contrail in the blue.

growth

green fur of new growth on a blackened tree trunk.

whiteout

misty morning whiteout burnt blue by the sun.

dappled

the play of dappled sunlight as I ride down a treelined street, late summer.

glass

the icy glitterdust of scattered windscreen glass caught in the headlights on the road at night.

change

cool change.

biochemistry

the biochemistry of love.

thunderhead

the mushrooming riot of blue-bottomed cumulonimbus.

crackle

crackle of soap suds on the plastic colander as it drains in the sink.

lens flare

atmospheric lens flare of a double rainbow, taking up one third of the sky at sunset.

light

brunswick light, hills hoist with star.

chipper

the power to be chipper.

secrets

an old television spills all its secrets at the side of the road.

rim

a rim of white bone starts to show on the empty eye socket of a dead mynah bird in the park.

marmalade

the marmalade brushstroke daubed between my tortoiseshell cat’s freckled ears.

frangipani

the smell of frangipani flowers in the backyard after a cool change.

sparks

sunlight streams bright sparks of water from the shower.

loose bricks

blik-blik blik-blik of loose bricks under the wheels of my bike as I ride on the pavement by the museum.