ON PAYING THE THIRD INSTALMENT
ERE in this communal word-stream flowing pure bitter blue and green with snow-capture, draining cloud and unseen mountain of white blood loosening soil breaking rock before bound close to earth’s inner fire, here stone on worn word-stone the poets have washed clean the kiss and curse of our being. Then faithful in the coiled city they have faced waves that are streets flowing with people and lives and gutter-spoil torn from a red woolworth mountain. They have inhabited small dark rooms, their thought painfully laundered above leaking or blocked drains yet hung out in pitiful cunning across the sun’s face. O thought rubbed between stones, handled and worn clean in deep stream or sunless room of mind let not your intimacy be quite broken let you not live revolved and separate, sprung clean to a switch and dried without any sun
in the easy menace of a mindiess wash-machine.
J.
F.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 790, 10 September 1954, Page 25
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156ON PAYING THE THIRD INSTALMENT New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 790, 10 September 1954, Page 25
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