New Zealand Tea Party: 1947
-HRILL voices fill the summer air with babelBiscuits and cakes are piled upon the table, And the women loll around it, plump and sleek, Exchanging village gossip of the! week, Complaining of the shortage of sugar and fatAnd throwing tit-bits to the well-fed cat. SIT and stare at the cream meringue on my plate Until its sickly contours disintegrate, And I see in its -place A thing that resembles a human face, But fleshless, sexless, something less than human, A wizened infant? Or an old, old woman? Lips stretched, eyes sunken, the Thing stares back at me As I sit among our guests at afternoon tea-
It is the face of Famine. +
Joan
Hyde
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 419, 4 July 1947, Page 12
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119New Zealand Tea Party: 1947 New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 419, 4 July 1947, Page 12
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