IN SUMMER’S HEAT by Elaine Barker
Blue Mountains, NSW
Who has taken up this azure veil,
casting it like a mantle
to float silently into the valleys,
to tangle with trees,
to drift over rugged peaks and cliffs,
escarpments and chasms
and then away, away into the distance
as far as the eye can see?
As the vivid mist rises,
the colour of lapis lazuli,
its earthy opulence carries
the essence of the eucalypt.
And who, enveloped in summer’s heat,
savouring the heady aroma
and gazing over these mountains
has not stood, caught in awe,
and wondered at this infinite mystery?