#1186 - stand still

 

1186

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stand still

Fairy Bower Falls, near Bundanoon

 

stand still

and a track runs out

 

cliffs grow up around  

 

a fold in the stream                  

where the stone tells time

 

burnt

and fern since

 

pause

moss telling

 

flowers of thought

uncollected

stand light

 

someone sings

last of the track

and pull up behind

 

come fungus

show the season past

 

bark falls

 

a root wrap winter in

 

place so far as memory

left just these few words

 

steep in the gully last sun

 

with leaves you’ll greet

first morning falls

 

nothing simple here

but the wind too high to know