AFTER RAIN
(Written at Mt. Aspiring homestead) A FTER long rain the grey sea-martins fly Like bats obliquely in the harrowed field; From the steep gorge, the cataract concealed By blackened ledges, roaring to the sky, Swells the waste ‘river turbulent in flood Where bones of teees roll, shorn of lichen now That fed invisibly on bark and bough. Purification of the stagnant blood This after-freshness: cows from milking come Their veins obscurely stirred (filing beneath Snow-ridge and. glistening bluff, whose blinding breath Forbids all greenness) by that fertile theme Extinguished never-the heart’s revelation Of hearth and labour, stall and habitation.
James K.
Baxter
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 555, 10 February 1950, Page 12
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104AFTER RAIN New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 555, 10 February 1950, Page 12
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