WAVE
THE green wave fugitive and flowing like grass in a paddock I may not walk, tossed grass where I may not stepsomething other than of heart or desite was the wave, unsated, following. That green, blue, white wave. So memorial time, of course, was Aowing. Probably, idly I likened time and wave counting that one and all summers going discreetly thus and long impenitent green out of blue, there at the beach by the harbouring head. Defiant, pliant further seaward the bars, all white, toss and reach of summer and sea, the malicious bars wantoned the day-wind while the unknowing black-back and red-beak coursed down and up and down fawn sand and shell. I drown deliciously down in that memorised bay, rip salt smoky mussels from a rock, crunch violet shell-whatever teach miracles of morality latterly I pray again up. Cumbrous starfish glowing angrily at slackwater, lupin pods, trails tyres left on sand and hoot marks, gather all relevant now desired, following momently blue and green under the hill, going warmly under, blowing away with the sand
driven impenitent later at summer's end.
Kendrick
Smithyman
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 728, 26 June 1953, Page 11
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