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Heidelberg gold
a Streeton set ekphrastic
(draft poem framed up with mainly his titles and notes)
gorse bloom light leaning colour
crawling out from under canvas
an image of how hard it is
on a fire of such strokes
the billy steaming
all plein air
and afternoon light
in hunger enduring
a little loan
to keep me going?
so start with
road ridden out
a horse drawn moon
warm loving sun
roads lead hills and far
summer golden
a sunprint on the canvas sky
there are seas from the deep
one is to discover
worlds from this end
easel set upon the moment
there’s a day drawn in
still lives by more than name
the jetty in steam
ferry of a dog leapt on
and one day won’t come home
Sydney - his ‘passionfruit and poetry’
deep green blue
rare phosphorescence
and a wonderful gulf
he’s gone in the decade before I arrive
that harbour yet remains
clouds come
then Cairo bright
to wadi gone
the Grand Canal
come back and back again
a staircase stood in the fallen house
ruins of a war shown through
a camouflage return now
in the land of the golden fleece
the vanishing forest 1934
Sherbroke, the picture of ringbarking
the digger and his log
the sylvan dam
pictures of the rain as well
he is always calling the colours by name
blue and gold - God’s palette here
bronze green gums
purple shadows
the purple noon’s transparent light
deep blue azure of heaven
fire’s on
a wash of rocks
and death comes out
little figure hardly seen
flat among the verticals
hard truths
now Toorak
tea’s served
a garden last of flowers
a telegram from the king
thus empire dubbed
still glides the stream and shall forever
that was Wordsworth, don’t you know
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