From Grey Mare Bogong

Murray Alfredson

The storm front strode
forward from
the Bogong High Plain
and Feathertop,
marched ridge by ridge
toward the Grey Mare.

The western sun
behind it lent
gold and crimson
glories to
that rain-veil hung
in folds from clouds’ black.

The walkers sat;
rapt they watched
that pageant beneath
the storm’s drum-rolls
until the ragged
clouds crackled
close enough to
touch. They ran.

Murray Alfredson's poetry of place captures moments and landscapes in time. See another dramatic example in his poem set in the Strzelecki Peaks in Tasmania - Falco Berigora.

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