1.

The distant mountain

— inverted —

levitates above the horizon
2.

Overnight

boulders are raised on pillars

of ice
3.

Cumulus clouds bloom

out of a cobalt sky

plump as mould  
4.

Cicadas emerge

from death masks

gleaming
5.

Bayonets of light

eviscerate the canopy of cumulus

A crow carks and departs
6.

Praying for rain

the shrubs offer

flowers 
7.

A semi-circle of standing stones

hides in the shadow of song

and silence 
8.

A murder

or an unkindness interrupted

rise over roadkill
9.

A shower of

fluttering wings startle

rippled rockhole reflections
10.

The watermark of a ghost

gum hangs in the mist

where a hill might grow 
11.

The weight of cement

silences country — and yet

the leaves rustle 
12.

A crow alights on an upper

branch — holds the tree upright

without effort
13.

The gloaming dusk creeps

up the glowing-orange cliffs

like gangrene
14.

Mountains meditate

in silence — their shadows

prostrate before them
15.

In the west

fragments of cloud dissolve —

All the rest is sky