eucalyptus
© Alex Loup
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they breathe,
in tenderness leaf-tips stretching greenly canopian lungs breeze-rocked and crown-shy, diverging ecosystems collide and writhe in microscope a thickened python trails the mirror's edge of the underbelly and the towering overhead summer fingers become winter limbs the skin stripped, a cracked spine, split worm-bored trees bleed like a sacrifice young boobook's etched against the sky practice their scales while the moon boils above bare-armed eucalypts hold clouds aloft catching light-streaks like new rain reaching still, they breathe |
Lenora Cole is an emerging Australian poet, with publications in the independent online journal several hundred fools and the University of Queensland's journal Jacaranda. She has a particular love of arthropods and the natural world. She can be followed on Facebook.
