Nocturnes

Bridgetown, WA (Bigger is possibly better. Please press Z.)

Note on Moonlight by Wallace Stevens The one moonlight, in the simple-colored night, Like a plain poet revolving in his mind The sameness of his various universe, Shines on the mere objectiveness of things. It is as if being was to be observed, As if, among the possible purposes Of what one sees, the purpose that comes first, The surface, is the purpose to be seen, The property of the moon, what it evokes. It is to disclose the essential presence, say, Of a mountain, expanded and elevated almost Into a sense, an object the less; or else To disclose in the figure waiting on the road An object the more, an undetermined form Between the slouchings of a gunman and a lover, A gesture in the dark, a fear one feels In the great vistas of night air, that takes this form, In the arbors that are as if of Saturn-star. So, then, this warm, wide, weatherless quietude Is active with a power, an inherent life, In spite of the mere objectiveness of things, Like a cloud-cap in the corner of a looking-glass, A change of color in the plain poet's mind, Night and silence disturbed by an interior sound. The one moonlight, the various universe, intended So much just to be seen --- a purpose, empty Perhaps, absurd perhaps, but at least a purpose, Certain and ever more fresh. Ah! Certain, for sure...

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Oh no, not another Northam sunset? (SOOC)

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Etihad Stadium, Southern Cross Station and Docklands, Melbourne. The stadium roof was open for the BBL match between Melbourne Renegades and Adelaide Strikers. (Bigger is better. Press Z, please.)