The Mountain of Dawn is how one’d start:
a line about density, O hint
of The Sun raking
the cloud of night through, azure
— not the right phrase but the draft
of the right phrase—
veins like geodes, the cloud slowly turning
palpable— like a mountain— in light.
Not gold, only sulphur
the most of the hint of light spent
rebooting the world/Coburg: the now visible
skyline, the outline of the mountains in
the distance, a communications tower flashing/
hardening. There is ambling
of cumulonimbi and the Doppler effect
of trams/buses, early morning workers/pedestrians.
The patches of wattle and gum trees/horizon
is visible. History is the different
points on a plane, where a desert is
formed out of discrete black grains. Light gains
intensity; the specifics
of the grey tufts
— you may have access to discrete words
like Oxygen, Nitrogen, fluidity
and vapour—
gain power, the metaphor of gaining
power, becoming (il)legible; the sky is full
enough; there is a gradation — a red/yellow
to blue, to bruise, the point of transition
unclear/ hard to pin—between the centre-
- stage, a sun performing
an actor, accepting their flowers and calls
of encore and the tiny stitching
of something ineradicable at the apex,
holy ionosphere meeting a part
of a given everything else/a given language.
From: Vol.11 N.01 – Queering Ecopoet(h)ics
Incomplete Queer Aubade
by
Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne
