Cape Kerauden
The salt plains meet the cauldron,
Pitted rocks near the mangroves at Cape Kerauden.
End of No 1 Rabbit Proof Fence.
The colonists hideous attempt to control the land,
And shamefully ,
reduce and restrict first people rights,
Oops, and the rabbits they brought by mistake.
Ground in this ancient landscape.
Free to draw the body in return.
His body muscles ripple and flex.
The triangle torso.
Proportioned and stocky.
The breeze caresses the cheeks and thighs.
My own refreshed in the breeze.
The sun is warm and healing.
For I am home.
—Pilbara Dreaming Collection
—29 July 2010
At Barn Hill
Wide Sand
Aqua Marine Sea,
White shiny wet sand.
Tiny humans in vast landscape
Explore the craggy caverns
of the towering monolith erupting out of the sand.
Castles in the sky.
Lizards footprints
Cross and cross hatch
Across the virgin sand
Between stones and shells weaving
In pristine redundancy,
Exquisite in its form.
The light fades to pink and mauve,
As the last rays extend across this place,
So vast and awe inspiring.
I am in the presence of the divine.
—Pilbara Dreaming Collection
—30 July 2010