Monday, 24 February 2025

#1883 - every name is just a guess

 



1883

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25.ii.25

every name is just a guess

peripatetic notes

Sea Acres, Port Macquarie

on Biripai Country

 

a hic-et-nuncery

 

summer day middle skilter

clamber vine

afoot

in filtered bright

we’re remnant of

 

the infallible place

 

of maiden’s blush

and the prickly fern

brush Cyprus, stringybark, bangalow palm

 

now and then there are such efforts

all out of control

 

elkhorn scrub, beefwood, sea whisper

 

reminding us

sun and shade

patterned in

a forest for wordmaze

 

wapinbak, flooded gum, bolwarra

 

the giant water gum

shone through sometimes just as you see

 

buttress bold

cabbage tree, orange thorn

 

eyes fallen up

days to forget

 

we’re here for

 

myrtle ebony

breeze and a dangle down python too

 

the narrow leaved palm lily

the three leaved watervine

an edge of lichen, remember

 

rose maple, ribbon wood

 

all of us together

more than the tree

 

but the tree is a world

it’s turning too

 

the yellow pear

the native olive

 

how many names have sunk to this soil?

 

even dark as night does

some one will be singing  

 

it’s done with everything evolved

 

here’s the downhill part

then catch your breath up

 

red ash and the caper berry

 

who is it dares land on my page

just where these words fall?

 

who wouldn’t wish for the sun just where

just now?

 

hear an ocean by

 

deep in the bones

where I’m off for a wander

 

I’ve come to forget who I am



































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