We are all the time negotiating
humanly created
systems of significance.
From axe to axiom
the collective inscription
recollects the primordial premise.
Naming itself is an act
that plants a flag:
Perry Saddle Hut
highest on the track
the name emblazons a contract
between past and future.
History mates with geography
bespeaks a sense of watershed
and time.
Culture is the act of lifting
these things into
an ordered and utilized whole
the realised embrace
of the social mind;
still
on a night on the trail
in the cosiest of sleeping bags
there are gaps for the cold.
