Joanna Walkden Harris & Pete Spence
Careering South.
eyes on all the surfboards to see
the traps going along a swish coast
swift options of seared black flippers
in fifth position over some briny
eavesdroppers making hay selling
sand dunes to barking King George
Whiting lost in the kelp siege the sea
is an urchin looking into the shreds
of warm currents careering south
through a churn of gritty nets sashaying
in pairs or in quadrilles scalloping the grains
of a gale across sheets of stern rocks
trying to mirror an idea of themselves
in a ferment of moist sparks roaring across
the trail of a cloud with the shape of a cuttlefish
boisterously sulking into a lenticular
horizon where a westerly wind drops
sunset like a pill into a glass of water
Joanna Walkden Harris is a photographer/printmaker/poet who has always lived in Melbourne. Born there in 1950.
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Careering South.
eyes on all the surfboards to see
the traps going along a swish coast
swift options of seared black flippers
in fifth position over some briny
eavesdroppers making hay selling
sand dunes to barking King George
Whiting lost in the kelp siege the sea
is an urchin looking into the shreds
of warm currents careering south
through a churn of gritty nets sashaying
in pairs or in quadrilles scalloping the grains
of a gale across sheets of stern rocks
trying to mirror an idea of themselves
in a ferment of moist sparks roaring across
the trail of a cloud with the shape of a cuttlefish
boisterously sulking into a lenticular
horizon where a westerly wind drops
sunset like a pill into a glass of water
Joanna Walkden Harris is a photographer/printmaker/poet who has always lived in Melbourne. Born there in 1950.