Breeze
I stayed up reading late. My light was the last one to go out
on the whole block. I checked.
And every now and then I leave this book in which i have been looking
for the last few hours, at poems etc… mostly not reading them
and go outside and piss over the verandah into the front garden.
Feel the cold creepy feel of August wind creeping up my bare legs and
looking up to the sky, which is unarguably full of stars and bright almost
full waning moon giving everything that moves a definite shape
that sways in what now is an energetic breeze
The house stood as though it had been washed there by an enormous tide.
Lodged above the tree line, between it and the escarpment
that rose directly behind it.
It stood weathered like a wooden raft. Still in one piece
but leaning gently in one corner.
The house had been weathered like the bare wood
growing out of the side of the cliff. Everything set at weird angles,
like the undersea frozen in a strong current.
Even the garden had something of a sunken quality to it.
as though, in order to find the existing form you might have to dig down
one foot- discover the original bones of plants
gleaned white by the moon.
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Trains are shunting up and down the track. It’s early morning
and the hill cliffs beyond the road are hit by the first bits of sunlight.
A movement so slight, like the buzzing of a butterfly coming
closer to the ear.
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Some construction sheds are erected across the road.
Little white ones that look like toys in comparison to the hill
that rises behind them.
I imagine what they must look like from the very top – more toy-like
probably. These sheds that have been constructed to house the thirty
or so men employed to build the new railway.
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I spend too much time in front of the radio.
I hear the floorboards and I know you’re out there somewhere
drawing me into your place. Curling in the space between two large rocks
behind the sand dunes.
On the other side of the house, ocean-blue Pacific O.
Windows that open out suddenly to the extended relief of coastline.
There has been a significant change in the size and placement of the horizon.
The trees upon the hill are reflecting the sun as though they are made of
some resilient galvanized iron – they are reflecting the light everywhere in
strips of green.
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