Yeperenye notes
By Yvette Holt
Published 19 June 2023
last night, by the falling waistcoat
of a half-caste desert moon
discreetly, deliberately
i heel away from somnolent flutes
water-coloured caterpillars and testaments of olde
\
into a floral jar of untitled clay-pans and annotated spinifex
inhaling burgundy stained pages of handwritten riverbeds
silently, incessantly
quilling louvered hours of jaundiced memories
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by the rising ceremonial seas of ante meridiem
echoing curlews ribbon my desiccated tongue
mirroring speech
if only occasionally
quite lucidly, most insanely
i delight in the sweet palm of darkness
Note: ‘Yeperenye notes’ was written as a poetic cultural observation of the mountainous sleeping caterpillars - Yeperenye - (Western Macdonnell Ranges), which surround the shell of Mpwernte (Alice Springs). It drips with the chorus of a psychoanalytical poetic approach through ascending language of past and present. The existence of being throughout the ticking of time from sunset to sunrise.