Every morning
I walk on the darkness
below Australia

and on Rebecca upside-down
on the other side
of this impenetrable earth

the first to dissect my words
no longer mine now but 
for those with a different slant 

though they were never truly mine
being like the rich
firmament of DNA

I have transmitted to my grandchildren
from a source older than our selves
part of some timeless process

of which we can discern
neither the beginning nor the end
so I should be thankful

they are now studied with care
under Rebecca’s inverted microscope
a cockatoo at her sunny window

before she goes out to walk
on the darkness surrounding me.