Sport 6: Autumn 1991
Blue Hills 25
Blue Hills 25
Cape Woolamai from Kilcunda:
the sky too subtle for a vulgar type
like John Martyn . . . Turner perhaps . . .
Sunlight Through A Bespattered Windscreen;
A Pearliness Below The Cliffs, July 26, 1990.
This last hour
the rocks disclosed by water where a boy cringed,
thirty years back, from the texture of anemones
hurled by an irate uncle
—an image of petty violence
beyond the powers of the nineteenth century?
New grass in the bridge's shadow slants
as it did in photographs; the railway
runs off its trestles deep into sand.