elements

Mega graveyard, near Himeji, Japan.

13/1/2012

we try so hard to keep memory alive.

flesh eaten by other life, the air.

bones last a moment longer.

marble monuments endure for centuries

yet even these fade,

crumble back to arms

of earth and air.

ultimately nothing remains

but that long chain of chromosomes,

past and future generations linked by spiral bands.

with time the patient ground

welcomes us all.

Patterns

i.

every snail a shell of its former

self. Trace the curve

to spiral’s centre

to find its

point of

origin

.

ii.

a goanna waddles

over sand

leaving

its own

dot

painting

iii.

driving through vineyard country.

trellised grapevines

intersecting,

making connections.

geometry on speed.

iv.

squiggly wrinkles on the

inside

skin of a chicken’s gizzard

might be the

outside

of a peach stone

or a scrotum

in winter

v.

ridges in beach sand

giant versions of my wrinkled instep sole,

miniature solidified memory

of the waves which

washed them in

vi.

hold the abalone shell

to your ear

and they may

find a family

resemblance

vii.

curved spokes of seeds packed

in fibonacci’s sunflowers

1, 2, 3, 5, 8…

viii.

rivers viewed  from 30,000 feet.

scribbly gum bark.

ix.

satellite image of  tributaries.

an aneurysm waiting to happen.

x.

the trunk of the pear-tree knows.

tessellates,

            imitates

cracked mud from which it grows…

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