#1140 - creek lit

 

1140

14.ii.23

4.45

creek lit

Gore Cove Track Series

 

track once

creek lit

once must never have known where to go

 

still followed

paws after

 

road over

train roar

how the city comes and goes

 

someone is walking their creature

tugged on

 

slippery in the after

rising in sun hopes

 

clean once

when there was no way

but any to go

 

today

track collects what’s left –

a spare sock, now plastic

wrappings of time

 

muddy the hindpaws

even so stillness

 

every day come back

it’s a different sky

 

you might here trickle

this was once too

 

watch where you’re going

and whose home here?

 

you could call all of it singing

it’s here

nowhere to end

to begin

 

there’s just this way that

low wing and lift

the flock and flow

 

when you climb up out of the creek

it will take your breath away