#1900 - where I've not been before

 

1900

6.73

14.iii.25

hic et nunc

where I’ve not been before

Gore Cove Track Series

 

see the trail of trees

up, down

reaching for weather

 

cave high up carved from the storm

 

there’s a come and go sun

never the same

it’s not the one this morning

it won’t be this afternoon

 

things I know on my rounds around

remember as if they were now

 

they won’t be here again

 

though these must be my prints

in the mud

 

then yesterday’s leaves fallen

where they never were before

 

I call it my garden

all eyes up

and touch the stone to steady on

 

I hear the first bird ever

 

here’s edge of cliché as any word is

 

here’s difference and there’s repetition

 

who were just now

now just as gone!

 

I’m seeing now what won’t be again

as I’ve never seen before