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