this alphabet of pebbles

shells

seaweed

each morning

each tide

a recombinant story

 

a subtle language

infinite narrative from a

finite vocabulary

 

telling the old story each day

another way

 

 

 

today an almost

blank page. a feathery weed

brushes a haiku

 

 

 

After the storm a cyrillic of bleached Posidonia

 

Sumi-e black seagrass on whitepapered sand

 

 

 

Chats leave their own story in cuneiform

 

everyday

The mystery

explained

 

the rosetta stone,

 

undiscovered.

 

 

First published in TEXT: The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs, Griffith University

Vol 10 No 2 October 2006

ISSN: 1327-9556

http://www.textjournal.com.au/oct06/walker.htm

also appears in micromacro.