#768 - fern and shadow

10.ii.22

768

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fern and shadow 

Gore Cove Track series

where the tracks together 

foot follows 

far creature calls

so the machinery goes

sight tiniest of cloud to catch

I, too, might grow to stone

or cast me on

say sun 

say summer

all six legs over

steps which are worlds in themselves

ways on

fern and 

skitter

a swooper close 

mangrove quack

through shadow such 

things severally 

heights and leaf

the trickle and the pool

shade’s where I stop, wait 

fresh stone

an unhurry

fish slap falling 

leaf in the mud 

though urgent birds for business

here comes harbour 

tonic flow

towards away 

scribe these bare facts

and I

along myself 

could cast a few