Diane Hine - The Lake lyrics

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Diane Hine - The Lake lyrics

Midday rays slide through bladed gum leaves; thump and lever shaded nooks. The lake's green fringe is pressed drab grey by sixty miles of baked blue sky like flowers in a book. The hammered aluminum lake glares; wraps thin chilled metal around legs, sloughs sheets of steam to thicken the air. A jumble of drowned forest debris is dim lit in silt dregs. Night congeals the red gum effusions of Marris to hard black streaks and knobs. Two people tread on discarded bark under stressed limbs of pale Wandoo. Force fed trees relax, quaff oxygen and stretch after dark. Opaque water and transparent air; equally black and balmy. Split by a calm cohesive layer barely noticeable to the skin. The stillness disarms. The lake's texture at night is smooth, dense, buoyant and soft. Billions of light years above, the naked universe reveals all, if only the man and woman cared to look up.