Robert Verdon, #54, spinning spinning still

cat or possum

curled round tree

fading into absence

spinning still

fading into itself

and soon to be

a skeleton key

round tree

round tree

a greener hearth

you will never see

spinning spinning still

round tumbling leaf

australia a leaf round you round tree

into the round earth

abandoned sleeping still

curled round young tree

a white hole left

in history