Seeing Ones




Stand self-consciously across the horizon line to be

                                          human or -made.

            The living initiate can illude a stillness,

                                                       while the inanimate has no say

                            in its matter, its onward creep, falling off its own ledges

                                                                        on to lower ones.

                                                                        When my father was younger than I am now

as we walked up the mountain with our sandwiches

                                          he told me on the way up to doff and defer

               to the man on his way down no matter

                                                     what kind he was.




Slab 2012 | Dane Lovett | Acrylic and oil on aluminium composite panel | 40.0 x 30.5cm