From the album Abstract Vectoral Landscapes TQN-aut 7
video captured on East Alligator River (Erre), Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia.
scramble up from the track
in the breath of the heat on the wind
past the smoke of the fire
scrubby grass and the river is dry
butterflies, blackened tree
plateau, savannah, falls, and floodplain
pandanus spiralis
stones underfoot, the walk to the ridge
and there Myormu
waiting for me
sickness country
and in rock escarpment
in the deep past
Miyamiya
and the camera phone
brow trickles waterfall sweat to the ground
from the mountain below
Google Earth, or a video drone
as the ground is above
captures fatal painting photograph
the rainbow came through
tail lights and explosions below
and this sickness country
all that you can see
is what you’re told
you can see [to see]
peripheral night
soon after twilight
flashes of light
when the sickness takes hold
nausea, vomiting, appetite loss
dehydration, confusion
cells degraded by autophagy
bone marrow syndrome
cutaneous blisters ulcers
sweat glands atrophy
DNA clustered damage takes hold
somewhere…
[...over the rainbow]
