(not strictly today, as I wrote it last night, but recast this morning)
birds are returning line by line
near the river their shadows gather
black and still where water sifts
silver on ash ash on silver
lovely the creatures of light springing down
from cloud to home
neither suspended nor in motion
brick and wood are things of flame
fire remembered and foretold
making and ending
Alison Croggon, Williamstown, Melbourne, 8.11am
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Alison Croggon
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