#2079 - two mountains poems

 

2079

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two mountains poems

 

cliffline

Katoomba

 

a stillness edging

sea of underbreath

 

there’s a lean to climb

an edge to mist

 

bark hanging in the valley bright

 

consider

some might say a dive

 

there’s memory of once upthrust

there’s standing of the clouds

 

could call it chaos

how to see height

 

at twig not even sway

a cockatoo prominence of white

 

look again and gone

 

just on my way

and stop to jot this down

 

in fernbright

Wentworth Falls

 

and in sudden shade

 

lunch walks me off

 

at slippery cliff and under

a beard of grass flows

and on to

the outward sea of nothing there

 

but all this long way down

 

all along the falling

hear it!

 

as if a sky were not quite landed

had this far to go

 

heaven afoot!

 

lunch long gone

looking forward

 

come into a field of flowers

a beach upstairs almost

 

falling to dusk

 

a hoop of bark the wind brought

a stone to catch last light