Ashley Capes teaches Media and English in Victoria. He currently looks after simple poetry blog kipple and moderates an interactive renku site Issa's Snail. He also dabbles in film and is addicted to 80s cartoon shows.

His work can be found in a variety of print and online publications in Australia and a few overseas. He has worked in community arts where he assisted with exhibitions, organised short story competitions and poetry gigs, and in music retail while completing a double degree in Arts/Education at Monash University.

His second poetry collection Stepping Over Seasons, was released by Interactive Press in 2009.

Ashley can be found at:

His blog
Issa’s Snail
kipple
holland1945

Read more by Ashley:

foam:e
Mascara Literary Review
Stylus Poetry Journal
Bluepepper
Colloquy

Buy Ashley's books:

Stepping Over Seasons (2009)
Pollen and the Storm (2008)

Published in The Diamond & the Thief – November 09

comes to rest
by Ashley Capes

the dandelion clock roams
like a heart-beat fairy

over blackened trees
that reach from a seabed
  of green -

frozen shipwrecks
  spilling charcoal
from glorious wounds

and peppering the sand -

  each spore
thinner than mist,

comes to rest in
the smallest places.