#248 - Yaminba Track

 

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Yaminba Track

 

in a Pilliga stillness

 

sandy and blackened

these caves

it won’t suffice to call them

 

but here we are

go round again

 

anyone can see this is sacred

it’s why bother building a church

you can see though a church is a little like this

 

here we see time’s toil

how it’s facing

 

cave light where the old fire’s kept

 

are we not sky struck

with this presence?

 

come here to scrape

and to sharpen, to sing

 

the chapel’s ceiling’s done out in maps

 

here’s a trailing off of limbs

and who?

 

grass trees stand like the wrong word here

so many sorts of bee come

white and full flowered

be within whiff or two

air honey

look down see ants carry

 

from here

see far

 

we are a trick of the light

soon gone

 

that roar like the sea

must be

below

see far from

I call the forest forever

 

that roar like a train

must be the road

 

go round

 

 

come in awe

leave nothing

 

aren’t we turning to stone

returning?

 

the guardians of all this time

how are they not still here?