2023 - Ocean Drift - Studio
Journey #3
All works: Botswana ochres, water colour on paper 56x76cm
Listen
to the waves
washing through
Mokolo palm.
Taste
salt dried on thorn
scarred edge
of faded shores
Look
the vanished sea
hangs above desert
disappeared before memory
as the continent flexed her spine
shifted her weight
and created a rift valley
upon a sigh
Drive
below the red necked falcon
balanced
over a golden cobra
whose neck broke
as you flew
towards monsters rising
like sleepers
upon dream horizons
Pass
the place where stands
of strange tree whisper
along long gone waterways,
of farmhouse, paddock and fence
sex rubbed raw
by eager men
husbanding herd and land
breaking ground for seed
Stop
You have come
to a living ocean
frothing and cold
that stretches
all the way home.
