#2154 - breeze in the underbrush

 

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breeze in the underbrush

at Sea Acres, Port Macquarie

 

a chatter up

 

a frond drop

 

tangle till

 

dark of shade traipse

 

comes laughter from behind

some human else

 

the strangling fig

straw treefern

 

and a cat impression

 

eyes up

 

here there shafting of some bright

 

Bangalow!

there’s nothing and no one so straight, so tall

 

eye along, watch where you go

whipbird then for punctuation

 

here ribbon fern

here vine lost in pursuit

and of whom?

 

it’s any old tree will chase you along

with a hurry up

you’ve no permission to stop

 

so find onself

as ant across the page of day

 

so we all grow together

wilt a little droughtwise too

 

watch one tree swallow another

cloud and cloud obscured

a lean and falling slowly, slowly

in the underbrush shallows

 

vine as Tarzan too

all this becalming sea caught

 

the stillness of a tune

will take most of your time

 

sour cherry –

things named for their elsewhere, for otherwise

to have them Latin on a ladder

 

soft gloss and fleshy fruit

 

the black apple

the bolly gum

yellow tulip

python tree

 

one wingfall

and another

 

red ash

 

ribbon rise

and half way up – this residence

a tiny nest

 

the eye’s a thread through mazing

where the head’s not been before

 

needless to say this all frames me

 

I’d put out

if half the leaf you are

 

I love the very thick of it

breath belonging to us all

 

I hear the wave roar

 

you can’t see through from this to there

 

you know that there’s an ocean though

 

along the way and gone   

 

who’ll bite if I stand still?