Poem: Preservation Bay
This week’s Poet’s Corner features the second of two poems by Leon van der Linde looking at contrasting parts of north-west Tasmania.
Preservation Bay
Benevolence bathes
in the dying sun
when it slowly slides
into the ocean
and the late dusk blends
from pink to maroon
then purple-black
the salty sea spray
rinsing my nostrils
and also my mind
blustery, feather-grey clouds
come dancing in
their misty fingers
ruffling the white-grey manes
of the galloping swell
the ocean’s silky hand
reaching through
my surfboard
caressing my heart
connecting my soul
to a wider,
deeper,
presence
one more wave
one more ride
in the softly fading light
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Leon van der Linde was born in Zambia. After 10 years in Tasmania, he now lives with his family on a small farm near the rural locality of Yarrowyck on the western slopes of the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales. ‘Yallaroo is a jewel and I have found home…’ With a PhD in psychology from Western Sydney University, he works as a psychologist in nearby Armidale, specialising in brief or time-limited dynamic psychotherapy, and is the author of the book ‘A New Drive-Relational-Neuroscience Synthesis for Psychoanalysis’, details of which can be found here.