#1297 - they don’t leave much of the sky

 

1297

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they don’t leave much of the sky

ekphrastic for Nancy Borlase’ 1949 ‘Old Brickworks, Ryde II’

at the Art Gallery of NSW

 

a chimney pause

poke out through creases

 

the paths, the pits, their shadows

all green but the colour of brick

 

blank primeval

solidity of distance –

once windows, doors

 

so many brick shades

 

plumb framing

old debris cleared aside

 

hills float and clouds too

nothing to trip

 

as we now know

the smoke occludes another blue

 

who would come on such a path?

there are no ruins here