Friday Night Lights Project: Week #20

This week’s collaboration has been a fiery one. Cindy and I are both currently enjoying the vast beauty of Blackall so we decided we would bring a new kind of light to the night sky… And Ashley, as always has delivered a poem that connects magnificently with the works we have created. This project really is a joy!

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The guide values material
economy. He tells us
baiting the hook is all you have to do

and they will show up
for the taking, passive creatures
really. His talk reminds me

of a shaman who said he could
yoke the sun same as the ox.
He did not know of eclipses, coming.

AM

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CK

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A riverbank will show you how:

you sit in melaleuca shade
on a square
of red earth

the sun midafternoon through leaves
and you watch

kitehawks and tourists cross
the bridge at river’s narrow

where dragonflies nip
circles of memory in the air

and as you dip your cracked-
enamel cup held
in bird-warm hands

steam rises from where
bridge and mirrorbridge merge

it is enough to make you think
the spirit is a silver vision
broken loose
in the shivery sound of nothing

so you go off weightless
humbling your feet
with dust

GN