John Kinsella

 

Heidegger and Poetry (Istrice 2)


    for Niall Lucy


The logic
of the damaged
animal
outside the zoo —
a rarity —
ethical
as Greece,
gathering
of crows in twin dead trees
near the glue works: chain
lettering, so many;
so many of them.


So, opposition
in the open,
on the roadside
slightly out of view:
so low so slow
in abstaining
tall trees — just white gums
and red gums — people
passing knowing
only colour
generally —
you know, verticals,
the higher ups
the stretches
over the lower dead.


How do you timeframe fire
burning down
to prevent fire
in summer:

unfinished,
like heart
of lines:
behind
crow clusters
picking remnants:
vocabulary,
concordances,
lexicons,
third party
insurance?


I take the rollover,
quilled ball of tale,
give ground.


What do we give
on the up and up?
It’s the Southern Highway
I drive home. Honest,
that’s the route
of the errant.
Accidents
waiting to happen,
even where lanes
double — briefly
duplicate.



Epilogue


Countersign
echidna montage —
termite castings,
scatterings at pedestal
of bush corridor,
connective tissue,
vast stone
of Walwalinj —
quartzite mountain.

Countersign,
swept aside nightly
to muzzle, adore
only what’s swept
aside nightly.

Stylus and burin,
working dry
leaf litter;
quartz too hard
to mark, tossed
aside to glint.

Countersign
echidna montage —
termite castings,
scatterings at pedestal
of bush corridor,
connective tissue,
vast stone
of Walwalinj —
quartzite mountain.



 


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