Robbie Coburn & Michele Seminara: Collaboration # 7

Boneyard (Robbie Coburn)

not the barren boneline of the property

the suns eye blinkers, but the repetitive plot of humid air

the body pitching prayer against the silo's shell

the wind looses flies into the heat

growing thin, a slow collapse of skin

(blood running through the property, 

   born into it)

a lone gumtree planted in the slip track's centre

leading to a drying dam, water gushing against eroded mud

staring into the water inside the boneyard

a sense of fear, peripherally rising into the headlong 

grasses.

 Plot (Michele Seminara)

The sun gushing blood 

through the grasses, water rising 

like prayer in humid air.  

The yard a slow collapse of bone

and body eroded by flies. 

Fear running headlong through a gumtree, 

fear thinning peripherally in wind; 

fear in the barren blinkering 

of the lone eye.