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Peter Minter is a poet, editor and publisher living in Sydney. He is the author of Rhythm in a Dorsal Fin (shortlisted for the 1996 NSW Premier's Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize), Empty Texas (winner of the 2000 Age Poetry Book of the Year), Morning, Hyphen (Equipage Press), and is presently writing a new manuscript, blue grass.

My despair is finally broken now,
        a bird I sing outside your window
conjures exile from the day's
        elaborate gate. The sea's
tremendous vein
        of surface wreckage knots the shore's
smooth wood, calligraphic ropes,
        plastic bottles weed, scale & intellect

pastured out in hammer tides.
        I wander thru it, one eye
blown toward the rim of hope,
        another rolling round my swollen
feet like a diagram of love
        glancing to the sky, the sea, the clamour grain.