Relics
ancient tors
follow the coast,
dark and gnomic,
granite plugs
peaks and mounds
the hunched bulk of Tibrogargin
Beerwah’s spike
the Glasshouse Mountains
of a homesick Cook
charting the east coast of
Terra Australis
South -
a distinctive profile,
a Mountain of Warning
signals a reef
in that latitude of sea
smaller plugs jut up
from Gondwanan rainforest
following the reefed shores
unevenly
like an erratic ECG
that pulsed in spurts
of lava hot red rush
coating peaks
in an icing
of molten minerals
erupted fingers crawling
down crevasses
poking fissures in
the flanks
exposed cooling
wearing down
to be blown away
then flowed away
in later tropic wet,
your sweet-soft exteriors
destroyed over time
time and time again
inexorably
inevitably
the rain and wind of it all.
- © Erina Booker 2022
Erina Booker is a Sydney-based poet. She has published eight collections of her work, and contributes to journals and anthologies, internationally, in Australia, and online. She enjoys giving recitals, seminars, and judging competitions. Erina has a Major in Literature within her Bachelor of Arts degree, and a Postgraduate Degree in Counselling. She knows the value of words and the pauses between them.
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