Shivering fingers
of a drowned valley: parting
of radiant ways.
Grinding grooves in country rock.
A truck hauls the letters COLD LOGISTICS
through monumental cuttings.
A baler founders
in a dinghy’s bilge, spinning
counter then clockwise.
Chris Andrews lives in Sydney, on Wangal land. He writes poems and translates books of prose fiction, most recently Liliana Colanzi’s You Glow in the Dark (New Directions, 2024).