Menolyrical; Words for Words' Sake

FOSSIL

Johnstone River, Far North Queensland

Prompting thoughts of
travels made,
of searching times,
of numbers swapped; 
time which strayed
finding places,
sensing land.
Connecting deep
to history lines,
to spirit hand
welded with the roots below.
Whitened, bleached,
weathered slow,
drowned and dried
'neath that Southern
furnace fried.
Nature weaving, working art,
letting drift
the fishes by;
mosquitoes rife
compete with beetle,
touching ripple ,
eating skin,
dragonflies the surface skim.
Cool, in forest
bright and clear,
such this photo
prompts thoughts dear.


© Yamini Ali MacLean