Earth
moving in Newcastle
Ekphrasis (the ‘Resilience” sculpture, Tramsheds Park, Newcastle NSW. )
the first rubble on the foreshore
ballast of the ships it held
the higgel-piggel mayhem
the San Francisco earthquake
loaded into clippers
hauled delivered dumped
nineteen ninety one I wonder
when the earth moved
and shook was all that crushed
bashed energy
inheritance
and what
will be the cargo
of this new thing
this slick dick
white
by the lake when
you
crash the car plead
not guilty quote
resilience
the sculpture you were
just dice in a cup
(Designer; Jo Sinclair Sculptor; Roger McFarlane)
ReplyDeleteI love how that piece
looks like a head, a finger
like a stop on a flute
at the edge of itself
and the edge of the lake
a car runs into it
is its own damn fault