TEKAPO LUPINS
Into an angel’s azure
eye staring blankly
up at the sky in a
fortress of clasped hands
glaciers of cloud
calve off out of the valley.
A long slow drift of
pastel-dappled light
dances like a
nor’west ripple through a crowd
of faces, facets,
cadences in mauve and white,
pink, blue and
yellow, crazed by reflections.
The show of floral
chutzpa thaws, unmakes
itself into atoms of
Heraclitian abstraction
quantum uncertainty,
supremely nude,
despite the sharp, defining
clarity of it all,
hyaline, amaranthine.
Pink and its cousin
purple determine
which cloud-scudded
Wedgewood is lake’s
mirror, preventing
us floating into space,
yielding
to the signal’s cool and subtle flux
the empty stain of the field
the empty stain of the field
fading
into the blue din
of
the air.
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