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The light does not come unbidden

The light does not come unbidden
But is always there

All I need
Is to open my eyes

Remembering

That by “eyes”
I mean heart

Old Man Rock
He sits there watching
Spinifex and gum trees
Emu and the wallabies

Old Man Rock
He’s steady-on
I sit upon him
Wondering

At all that is
And ever was
And what it means
And what becomes

Travellers
We get confused about seasons

Like when we’re in Kakadu
And it’s October
Which is fall
Except it’s early spring
Yeah, spring in Australia

Winter crept up
The mountains
While summer
Slipped in
Below

Time to brush away
The winter’s rust

Time for new growth
On naked branches

Spring is come

Judge not this race by empty remains
Do you judge God by his creatures when they are dead?

~ Genesis, Watcher of the Skies

We create spaces
Walk away from them
Return, re-visit, renovate

We take what was
And make of it
Something else
Whether for utility
Or a statement

I grew up in New England
Where the forests come alive
For just a while in October

The leaves turn colours
Unimaginable
Lighting mountainsides on fire

I am a being of the night
My energy rises when
Illuminated
By moonlight
And starshine

The cabins disappear
Into thickened air
As if a blizzard
Fell upon us

It is August
No snow is falling
But the haze
Of forests burning

The forest burned
Above the steam
Hot red and orange
What once was green

Some get the blues
They can’t condone
The forest stripped
To barest bone