Passing Bennelong Point (The Sydney Opera House is situated on this point)

White-smoke-flare

tiles burning bright

(Tyger, Tyger - ha!)

Segmented gleam         we pip past         buoyant seed.

Need need need time         to see         Isherwood-wise*

tilt-slow-pan         eye-lens record         chk    chk    chk

steadycam.         Steady Joy, Rosie say.         Getting off.

Stabilise shot         frame         ah         now concentrate

Re    mem    ber.

Come on you Dill, Rosie say.         Snap out of it.        Don't

Don't

        want

to.

* I Am a Camera is a British comedy-drama film released in 1955. Based on The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood and the play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten, the film is a fictionalized account of Isherwood's time living in Berlin between the World Wars.