yiruk/wilson’s promontory

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

author : DJ Huppatz


you are foamy windblown stretched across the inlet windtrained up cliff down shaley shore. glowing with orangetipped buds a particularly coastal rubbing —

mountain your vision uninhibited cloudbound spectacle of driving & driving & walking to see. what i love most about you bathed in foggy orange is the way you move so slowly regulated at the tourist information centre sectioned off set aside for the eye set aside for the ear to hear you fold & unfold at continent speed. 

bits chipped.  seals or trees or tin extracted.  store warmth somehow.  descent into six thousand years of language drifts cracking to form peninsular scratched by pen insular wordsmiths forging nouns together. expulsion of lichen life or calyptorhynchus funereus (black flash in the sky) it was the seals in 1798 & in boots they came george bass spreading history across this shaley rooftop.
washed saltwind boulders expel tough spindly brush. light will find a way.  attached to surfaces smothering windshaped clouds merging blurry into mist. birdsong our aleatoric music we discussed cage that day but only in relation to mushrooms.

wandering snail line through patterned sand under lone helicopter emptiness scattered kelp limp over tidal rhythms. shellcaught point of fluidity scored with hermitcrab holes oblivious squiggle under threat of erasure a
gull dip
into space already conquered
to be one of a tight formation
to sing to
to sing too
to live in
sensitivity

sparkle of headlights before dark.  the feral species, who do you include?  buried below suitable myths the sky’s indifference to i. split flock mocking tackward insular as it becomes a willful something if you have lighthouse vision some said good i said what does it feel like the bookfresh library surface now a break: who moves into that space?  loan followed the swans from the yarra & watches over us from the mountains.


(SULFUR, No. 44, June 1999 and Southerly Vol. 59, No. 2, Winter 1999)

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