DANDELION DAYS
UMMER it was, and the golden lads day-dreaming the season away in the trumpet-notes of flowers under the sea-bird towering-an omen screaming of winter warning wasted on sands like showers; and windblown dandelions clocked off the hours. One, two o'clock or three on the sunblest beaches, on dry-gold hills, invested with new powers, we walked and knew the heavens within our reaches, risen above ourselves, young summer towers, while windblown dandelions clocked off the hours. Why winds are tragic that rake summer sand, knock the shocked gull to death on the bleak shore, writing the wintry paragraph of end, is something each remembers, and with fear observes the dandelion clock off the hour. Sky-change or sea transforms the hand you hold from the warm promise to cooler temperature: in the home-paddock, burnt is the season’s gold; love is an old, bent man by a ruined tower weeping as dandelion time clocks off the final hour.
Louis
Johnson
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 721, 8 May 1953, Page 19
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159DANDELION DAYS New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 721, 8 May 1953, Page 19
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