Longing For Here

[the world to come is in this one)

Rows of horseradish
leading down red dirt
paths to a creek now a
staircase of spill dams
stepping down eastwards
thru’ chestnut groves,
chinese gooseberries
climbing their trellis,
rip-patched bush, and
hard-won green pockets
of pasture where cows
meander before walls
of overlapping ranges
as gentle-climate blued,
spring-fed mountains
embrace ferntree creeks;
as that day will be on
our reawaking, a scene
of longing for here.


19 Nov 2004 © Wayne David Knoll

(Stony Creek Valley seen from Macclesfield Rd, Monbulk)