#468 - the shadows of the track

 

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the shadows of the track

 

are cast

a breeze because

and have another grammar

neither here nor there

 

they show not quite

no, never the same

 

leaf sway, bend

wings through too –

shadow and now gone

 

where will the eye be next?

a glimpsing!

 

so the track winds from sight

footfalls like shadows too

 

roots throw themselves

the soil seen through

 

tumble of fern

a palette of lichen

 

angophora, fig

cradle stone

this is how earth’s held

daybright so the shadows tell

as mirror where

 

reflections of the stream stood still

are of the day above

and follow

dell down

brackish now

 

mid-mangrove, tide out

cast of sticks

 

other ages glimmer in

as boats to a moment’s harbour

 

we see because we’re there