"...Trying / to explain my visit to these ruins / the
simple pretexts vanish like cinders...”
–Jamie Grant
“…Parting the milky haze / On mudflats, seabirds…”
–Jamie Grant
“…Parting the milky haze / On mudflats, seabirds…”
–Gwen Harwood
i.
birdswarm at
birdswarm at
water, at
eye's reach, under-
stated flow-
ers : under-
foot, wet hill
contours: hill-
trudged bracken-
patterns in light
declining, & wild
blackberries editing
scribbles & holes
in the taste
of the present : past
the autumn
timing you
stored, traced,
as passed
for, all :
in, fallen, as
apples, as:
the date enacts
a stagger, a slipped
instant, mis-
printed
on crumpled air :
as : gather-
ing in
the picture
of a hill, a smoke
cloud, a lake,
a flower : a roar
of unspecified
dots at the lowline: