#880 - Cathedral Cave

 

2.vi.22

880 

3.153

Cathedral Cave

Wellington, NSW

 

under a cage of ribs, say sky

an echo in the beast

 

we come down from the hailstorm dark

like megafauna fallen

 

and it’s Cappadocia

hiding from the Hittites

from the clock

 

swallow a pill and here we are

xylophone stairs

 

was this a place of healing?

was it all forbidden?

 

never just the one story

 

but warmer down here

it’s some smelly sphincter we’re in

one worries is this even air

 

begin a journey through these guts

and we see Alice falling

what she sees

‘eat me’, ‘drink’ and where’s the key (?)

 

are we tall enough to tell?

 

wonder what lives at the back of the cave

 

once we rode in the rain

it’s time the drips here

 

organ of limestone in crystal behind

why wouldn’t they make religion with it?

 

someone is tunneling with a spoon

to reach another chamber

we’re Christians, it’s the Romans upstairs

 

walk in through the stars stand still

one asks if there’s a plan

 

we could be the seven sleepers

in my pocket, coin of the Emperor Decius

what will it buy these days?

 

and… how on earth?

 

some pied piper led us into the wall

let’s say lad insane

 

drift off

and somersault minotaur

follow this thread

 

we’re Jonah in the whale

could he hear himself think?

you can certainly get pale down here

 

we’re Jews and we’re Muslims

the redcoats are coming

everyone has this story

 

you can hide at the back of the head as well

many lost there

 

take a pulpit from soft rock

tread over the skin of brain

 

and when will it be?

has the wall fallen?

 

the place out of time

connects all times

 

imagine!

we go in through the storm

 

call it the Timestone Cave

 

come out in a bright blue day