Geography

Be my view looking back

Red earth deep, red-tailed black

First landscapes and loves

Clear blue skies above

Calling me down that gravel track

Eucalypts after rain

Remind me who I'm again

On petrichor nights, my memories alight

We're more than we ever could explain

Tidal questions at my feet

Home is where the heart lines meet

Not in distance of the seas

Nor geography

Say hello to the spring

What will this time you bring?

An old self to shed? A new mouth to be fed?

Write me an answer I can sing

Tidal questions at my feet

Home is where the heart lines meet

Not in distance of the seas

Nor geography

Down every dune of your shoreline

I move with the migratory birds

Me and my shadows in a flight path rhyme

A dark murmuration of words