Lower
McCleay Trail
Felled tree spans
the gully, creating a precarious path to a tangle of green on the
other side.
I step toward
freedom from the ministers of religion, recognizing the supremacy
granted you from heaven in matters affecting the public order,
obey your laws, lest otherwise they might obstruct the course of
secular affairs by irrelevant considerations, with what readiness
should you not yield them obedience to whom is assigned the dispensing
of the sacred mysteries of the
chemistry of human life, from which no one has made it out,
and returned to speak coherently.
Chanting Tibetan dbyangs, creek is swallowed by city pipes. Does it hear train whistling, as a woman runs down
the path padding parched earth?
One
leaf spins down;
another
remains
hanging
.