Melinda Smith #6 the muse will see you now

James Turrell, Within without, National Gallery of Australia http://nga.gov.au/turrell/

the muse will see you now

start at the top
with your eyes in the wind
then tilt with the hill, tumble

in its fresh fur
pause, face down, nose
tickling with green possibilities

then start your roll, your drop, your clumsy
plunge through the cloudy mirror
come to, head cracked and baptised

find yourself on your wet knees
water-crawling over cold rocks,
(and yes, there is a pink box,

and the path leads in, into dark)
come to rest
gasping

on a single concrete slab
from where you can watch
everything happen

once again
upside down
in fiction

© Melinda Smith 2016