Melbourne Candid Series #1286 Flagstaff Garden

 

In Flagstaff Gardens, the afternoon loosens its tie.
Light filters through plane trees,
falls in careful greys on shoulders and grass.
The city exhales here.

He stands mid-step, phone resting in his palm,
as if time has briefly asked for his attention.
Sunglasses hold the sky at a distance;
his gaze is elsewhere,
measuring nothing urgent.

Around him, life edits itself softly
a child’s hat tipped with stars,
cups raised, crumbs falling,
voices blurred into a single human weather.
Someone eats. Someone waits.
Someone remembers to look up.

The garden keeps its older knowledge:
that towers can pause,
that movement need not hurry.
Benches listen. Leaves annotate the air.

In this frame, nothing declares itself important,
yet everything belongs.
A man, a child, a crowd in passing
all briefly held
in the calm margin of Melbourne,
where the city practices being still.

Sony A7RV

FE 135mm f1.8 GM

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