The mountain smoulders.
Woodsmoke distils sunlight
into billy tea;
through funnelled rock
deep in the gorge, creek-
water chatters aimlessly;
treeferns uncurl
clubbed fists of a foetus
above granite boulders;
blue wrens in lantana flare
like sparks in kerosene;
ancient wily eel in mountain
pool is fattening on time.