Place

Once in a while

you may come across a place
where everything
seems as close to perfection
as you will ever need.
And striving to be faultless
the air on its knees
holds the trees apart,
yet nothing is categorically
thus, or that, and before the dusk
mellows and fails
the light is like honey
on the stems of tussock grass,
and the shadows are mauve birthmarks
on the hills.


-- Brian Turner (1944- ), New Zealand poet

This poem was printed on a signpost at Lake Matheson at the place to see this view.