#618 - spring tricks of the garden (photopoem)

 

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spring tricks of the garden

(an afternoon)

 

photopoem / fotilapoemo

 

 

it is time

bright leafly

and flutter too

blue as deep as far

 

abuzz

in the underchimes

 

old dairy with lemons

with farmer’s friends

 

here’s orchard light

where the bible was spent

a good day I mean

 

corridors, chambers

shadows of choice

 

potato weight mulching

 

jumpy spider in the sink

some things kept just alive

 

and linger

all afoot

 

and look!

 

up in the arms of the camphor laurel

(secret tree I love)

 

birds of a distance

jasmine and tangle

everyone so up

all in bloom

 

twelve apostles

scatter to branches

and who can be bothered to count

 

a view today

from where the dunny was

thirty years ago

 

and still here!

black eyed Susan – the tree’s plea for help

 

mulberry that was once stump

now with kit for scale

 

fully accoutred in banksia brush

 

first mosquito tries its virus

too slow to begin

but they will be many

 

here come the pigeons from roof

those two!

 

a pond reflects upon itself

 

peaceful

as if we were the beginning

here’s no one else’s land

 

blessed breeze

in the honey locust

 

these are some of the places I have lost myself

these are the voices in my head

it is here that I’ve been all along  

as if we were the only ones