Passage
And what is landscape? In this instance fir trees
sloping to the lake. A
tiny isle, a no man’s land
surrounded by water.
Shall I swim out to it
and be lifted up? But to
what? A passage
in the clouds through
which I’ll float off.
Such as we glean unwittingly
from the
familiar - a glimmer of
alternatives: another
life from a different
decision made twenty
years ago. Friends we no
longer see, houses
we have never inhabited,
landscapes we have
yet to visit but call
and call and gleam
sometimes. It is a
bright light we catch on
clear autumn days. A
child that looks like
a grandmother, a stretch
of beach that beckons
for no apparent reason
and a town that
reminds us of roads not
taken and now lost.
Debbie Robson is the author of Tomaree, an historical novel
set in Port Stephens and Crossing Paths: the BookCrossing novel inspired by www.bookcrossing.com.
She has recently returned to short story writing (many about
an angel who drives a cab in Sydney) and a novella.
Debbie also writes poetry and has performed some of her
poems in Sydney, the Blue Mountains and Newcastle. She has had stories
published in The Write Launch, Words and Whispers, Provenance Journal, Vestal
Review and others and poetry in Dodging the Rain, Sunspot Lit Mag, Blood Tree
Literature, Dwelling Literary, Wine Cellar Press and more.
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