'Golden Summer, Clarendon' (1983) John Olsen
S
is for Sun and from sun serpentine rays cut sand and shelter of sandbanks. Sun
turns sapphire, as when eyes close onto sun’s negative, sometime. Sun is bush
road, lost orchard of ghost house: crow casts shadow, dog dream-bends on porch.
Sun picks up speed, crosses the drowning blue harbour, drops gear through
Darlinghurst. Just as in John Olsen (Closing February). His shorthand says S is
for Seasons, T is for Tendon, their tendency to curve and grace, to drag the
paintbrush, wiggle and widen, sign off with similar familiarity, while pelicans
push off, still, and frogs translate Basho.
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