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slap fire paint song

these cave walls dance to the sounds

an aboriginal pound

the earth is dust

dust

dust

dust

stomped by the soles

soles shake a pace

a lizard over rocks

over rocks

until sound pictures mix

and in synch the sticks click

picked ochre seams

through dust and embers

raise ghostly emblems

in a man's resemblance

his face paint

shapes

and the mumbled sing from holes

the groan of pipes through rock

the wind

hmm hhmm hmmn human rhythm sings

here click and dust and paint perfume

the air in coloured specks

and rare as hills

consume the chimes and rhymes now crashing in