Punch’s Day-Book – an extract

Posted January 30th, 2012

This is from ‘Punch’s Day Book’

‘There are those who plan to die
blameless, open-handed, an unwritten letter.
We can’t aspire to that.
We lack the pure compulsion and the nerve.

The orchard’s harvested; the stoves are lit
to burn all winter; the house is steeped
in a musty odour of fruit.
Think how it is
to own nothing, to carry nothing
from one place [...]

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Puriri

Posted January 3rd, 2012

Puriri

A puriri moth’s wing
lies light in my hand

my breath can lift it ―

light as this torn wing
we lie on love’s breath.

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Song of the Battery Hen

Posted January 1st, 2012
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