#2468 -- name the place and it's gone

 

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name the place and it’s gone

ekphrastic for Arthur Streeton’s ‘from my camp’ (Sirius Cove)

 

a clock slips by

 

fata morgana our city is

 

this stone and the salt wash

 

light of such an afternoon

 

smoke becomes a cloud

gulls float

 

loose lines could be a boat

 

there’s no one close to depict

 

a ship here once upon a time

name water after it