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Hourglass

By Sue Wootton

Hourglass
NZ$20.00
  • Publisher: Steele Roberts
  • ISBN: 1-877338-77-X
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… these poems glow with heart. They are laid-back, warm and loveable.”
— Hamesh Wyatt, Otago Daily Times

 

from ‘The bowsprit chronicles’

I gaze where the ship points me. On up-swells
I glimpse clouds; swinging down, I peer
into the keel-split water. I am always proud,
even disdainful: I slight porpoise and albatross
without favour. I am the sailor’s muse, the ship’s courage.
This fact sings in my cedar blood.


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