Before the leaves turn
Exhibition with SCAPE Public Art at Studio 125 Gallery,
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I watch the birds circle outside through the gap in the curtains
what colour is the sky, what colour are the mountains
always changing
cloud is never far away
There’s a pocket of sun across the lake
deep, green
a space between landforms
bordered by golden grassed mounds
like oceans of blonde hair
billowing in the wind
Every year I visit Wanaka to spend time with my family, usually it's early in the new year. This year it was a little later, the beginning of Autumn, when the landscape was on the precipice of preparing for winter.