#2461 -- at a stretch

 

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27.ix.26

at a stretch

7.30 am traffic

 

Gore Cove Track Series

 

to clear the head

with purpose

at pace

to get up the steps for the count

to speak with another world

(phone to ear here)

 

breathe in breathe out

so freshen the air

 

where there is the barking of the turkeys

the cooing of the pups

 

the early walkers with their sticks

hound in harness

all of them coming past

 

spring like the summer now

coming the other way

 

a scratch across the page like this

 

press blood to please the bones

 

to the plastic edge

where the e-bike’s abandoned

 

creek dapples along

 

the dollar yachts doze in their cove

 

slow burn whipbird’s over

lovely lilt beside, a trill

and crow caw

 

last of the winter chill

 

no one speaks of themselves here

 

it’s only a harbour blue line for under

it’s only a pale blue up