#1522 - a lizard wriggle on

 

1522

5.61

1.iii.24

a lizard-on wriggle

in the great heat

for the Gore Cove Track Series

 

still water tells the days from rain

 

we are here and lit

it’s as if

in such a shadow passage

 

it’s every time of day and now

 

all of a sky becalmed

 

rocks long spent

tide as far as slow

 

these roots a map of where creek once

track subject to bracken creep

 

today’s turkey too slow to chase

 

my day is a kind of notation

 

must watch where one goes

 

and in all such intensities

shadows a fossil fall

 

big yellow fellow high above

I call that central casting