the tv's off

reflected in the bottom right hand corner of the screen's

a candle flame

beside which dark beings absorb

in the convex distance

a blackwood table on which they know

a conical bowl of turned myrtle

on an aluminium tripod

is filled with the brown spheres of

macadamia nuts

and behind it

through the vertical blind

vague eucalypts

the distant

estuary

the sky