#467 - Berry Creek and the Gore Cove Track

 

10.iv.21

467

2.100

Berry Creek and the Gore Cove Track

 

mossed under

in a gully and ferntricks

creek of the recent rains

 

lichen climb, moss bright

cast of leaf shadow

last of the long afternoons

 

slippery misted from

seeping and drip

you hear them bright hidden in calls

 

a frond catch

glade song above

flow gurgle below

 

and climb to a breeze

in t-shirt autumn

tidelap and fig

 

grasstree, mangrove shine

might as well all of us for the sun

a torrent of vines

 

train far up

to lizard hollow cling

what odds of a crossing?

 

so wear the hours with walking out

for the tide come

slow shadows

 

the mangroves

and brisk geology

steps down into day

 

some children’s laughter

tops the hill

all this from a risen spore

.

 

coda

 

made splendid the eye to take all this in

when you weigh up the odds of outliving yourself

bear first in mind the track