--Peter SkrzyneckiEven words are tinged with autumnbefore they driftover the brown stream's crest -falling at Gostwyck from a hazeof poplars and golden elms.Under the bridgea view of paddocks sloping againsteach other and the breeze.A white horse grazes alonebeneath the flightof swallows:as eveninggently surrenders itselfto the murmur of insects in the peace.On the wallsof the small redstone chapelvines enclose each otherlike arms foldedin prayer or sleep.Behind it, over the water,the woolshed's a pyramidof pioneering years.I look along the roadjoining east to west,across frames of weatherboardand galvanized iron,listening to water whispering non-stopover stones and nets of weeds -while in the distancea man on a motorbikeis rounding up sheepand a pairof dogs keeps the stragglers in.Only the one-lane bridgeis untouched by autumn,the descent of lightand an aching silence of fallen leaves,its arch spread like a white rainbowover the darkening Waters -echoing like a rattled dicethrown desperately into the years.
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