#590 - Bago Maze

 

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Bago Maze

 

 

it is a garden of one trick

 

clipped circles

lilly pilly curves

(hot flush)

 

discover a disability

 

I am where we’ll be

and were

come again

 

some have in such shadows cast

and yet a hat for sun

 

no thankful map

 

but breeze

so whiff of way

 

some rooms are carved from a childhood

from elsewhere otherwise

 

maze changes directions as you go

so you become the riddle

 

come by the bottleneck

imagine peak hour

blind leading

 

there’s a trick to it alright

 

a break in the day

and slip through

guess again

 

hello, who’s there?

you know the wrong way

follow your nose

 

through the deer-rattle woods

to the gingerbread clearing

 

and mustn’t crawl through

though creatures will have

 

hear footfalls of the lost, not far

this is what we came for

 

everywhere dead ends

somewhere see-past

arches  

 

a bright parrot landing

 

pennants fly

come by bottleneck

 

and met in a maze

for let’s say a story

of course it must always defy logic

 

if only the streets had names

ah, but there’s only one

like an ocean laid dry

like a river run

 

laughter over our heads –

a kookaburra knows where it is

needn’t ever go far

 

above the clouds come and go freely

 

trick of the stream trips us out

 

here to do a job

 

go all the ways there are

bright the blue wren air

 

we are the only ones here