States of Poetry - Poems
States of Poetry 2016 - Western Australia | ‘Reading the Landscape’ by J.P. Quinton
by J P Quinton •
To read a landscape by another landscape;
Valley cloud reveals altitude.
To read the landscape visits the ego
That prevents a proper reading.
To this landscape, the circular fireplace
And a straight trunk – xanthorrhoeas present.
To read this landscape to the tune of other words,
As moisture moves us, is us, drowns us.
To read the landscape like a book
Means to think like a border
Like the roos who still jump
Where the fences have been removed.
J.P. Quinton