Traversal

for the Birrarung/Yarra

river

stirring maps of existence 

un-topiary vital sanctuary:

everything, everyone, everywhere

colossal furtive networks

veins, pulsing capillaries

stories bountiful in multitudes

we are

atoms circular, returning, leaving

composing cycles:

provisions during catastrophe

elemental in exultation, delight

navigation, markers of place

weaving generational responsibilities

the river

meandering borders swaying 

edges of the shoreline expanse

stars above for millennia, Bunjil

guiding eely moonless nights, life

flowing 

bones of its underworld find gnarled

rivers, bays, tributaries

dream-currents 

we are the 

yellow-tailed black cockatoo, magpie

mouths, chirring, calling out in mist

the pobblebonk, growling grass frog

extended  conversations inter-species

non-linear connections

perpetual systems of space and time:

we have only been lent 

this waterway to tend to

we hear, we listen, we grow, we live

river