Red Sand

RED SAND


Red dunes, of a red erg,
Red sand beaches without a sea
Red dust, red stone, the red grit
Of a superficial and thick regolith
Distinguishes long waves of inner lands
Like a red suit in sartorial regulations
That blanket much of the continent
And provides a vast red blackboard
As learning aid to be read in figuring
Out its language of written tracks
With heel-prints where blown seeds of
Spinifex rattle their husks and straws
To in gather in a wild winnowing
And the element where the Master
Wrote with a stick his one lost
And only known manuscript.




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Pictures taken July 1995 around dunes
south of the east-west Lasseter Highway,
and west of the main drag of the Stuart Highway
in travelling towards Uluru (Ayres Rock), Northern Territory



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