Aerial Overviews

Green Terrain, by Kelly Austin-Rolo (USA) 2019 (Public Domain)

A candle spilling from wick pool,

or taper dripping while it’s lit,

to fabric of batik in kind,

or blocked ear treated as a child;

but ‘means’, ‘meant’ words, not open minds,

for blue sky thinkers, without box,

or else encaustic not found out,

uncovered, though, but what’s in store?

It takes me to topography,

to architects’ designer sheets,

though colour invests action, place,

a unity within this space.

What shapes this stretch, both up, about,

a drone to figure underground,

the overview for soundings, view

of plumb, dig deeper history?

Both wax and wane of movements, tides,

I dream allotments, footpaths, trails,

haphazard growth, as stories told,

the bold, as earthworks played their rôle.

On common land which time refined -

here shades are buried under land,

of forest lawn and myrtle green -

where pine, mint, pear, lime, sage, and fern.

This crusty slice itself sublime

as clime also in earthy spin,

and like ley lines there’s mystery,

in making mark, encaustic flow.

Knife cutter bars imagined, swirl,

or mapped contorted isobars,

for whether playing part or not

in how this scape is today’s plot.

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