#709 - hic sunt dracones

 

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hic sunt dracones

Gore Cove Track

 

big thank you to landcare

 

 

I love the wet whiff dog bright walks

nose led as if by dinner

but you forget the line

 

here are

fern tops, flutter leaf

a sandstone show of breezes

harbour from the sea

 

La Niña summer

and the track must learn shadows again

have a hat

forget the sunnies

follow the trail of bright

 

creek runs

 

it’s here I come

to lose a self

 

ah, muddy midst

slip under

whipbirds waxing

 

the track is this just now

truth of its own

roots of it worn smooth

 

a fig creep cast of shadows

angophora perch for laughter

and you know who I mean

 

myself exotic

 

go breath by breath

 

dragons appear

 

and other skitter lizards

season of fresh brush chicks

 

little cameos

 

thus trickle to the harbour

 

turns of the moss now lit

all bring me to a mangrove lap

 

imagine the time before us

imagine what’s after us yet

 

a brackish plash

 

a lavish of green

skinks cross here