Rodney Williams

North south east west

a tanka string – for Meg

termite mounds
facing north and south
in line up here
where the sun is warmest
my compass in your smile

Kakadu National Park, NT

alpine hydro surge
downstream to liquid sunset
the Snowy River –
above its lowest reaches
sea eagles with power

Marlo, East Gippsland, VIC

orca photographed
flanking a harpooned baleen
to be fed whale lips
by men with lances & oars…
skeleton’s teeth worn by ropes

Eden Killer Whale Museum, NSW

fire lookout trees
with metal pegs up trunks
in karri forest –
to forsake fear for such views
we’d have breath taken too

Pemberton, Down South, WA