Newnes State ForestThere is a strip show going on in the forest at the moment. Some varieties of eucalypt do this each year.
Words to walk with:
From Gum-Trees Stripping by Judith Wright
"Say the need's born within the tree
and waits a trigger set for light;
say sap is tidal like the sea,
and rises with the solstice-heat -
but wisdom shells the words away
to watch this fountain slowed in air
where sun joins earth - to watch the place
at which the silent rituals are."
Wright scans a bit like the 19th C English poets, rather than someone from the '40s and '50s in Australia. Her content is spot on though. As is your image.
ReplyDeleteI love our bush.
That is an amazing shot ... what a sight!
ReplyDeleteJulie, I think this is early work of Wright's when she was much more traditional.
ReplyDeleteAmazing and mysterious atmosphere!
ReplyDeleteMust be some genetic recombination between snakes and trees!
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