Eliot Bukowski is not my real name, chosen simply because there's another member with my name, I thought I'd choose a pseudonym that reflects my major influence and my inflruence of the moment.
About me, I'm nearing 50, came to poetry late after an awful education in South London. Live in Canberra (Australia) now. I'm really not that important and prefer to focus on the work.
The violin sits by the window
- breaks her strings down phone lines (now waves)
an insistent out of tune complaint
criticism, rebuke, stripping off
...
As I pass,
I watch horses on shelterless fields,
patchworked clouds mirroring the land.
the land, green, confounding the absence of water,
...