SONG IN THE HUTT VALLEY
(TRRUS, stratus, cumulus, ~ Gentle or giant winds Invoke the trees and cabbages; The rising jet-trail finds Space out of sight and valleys Where the muddy rivers run Past houses, g’oves and alleys In the residential sun. The placid eaves of evening Purpled by homing sun Take small account of reckoning Broadcast by weatherman. Houses still grow, the children Like cabbages are seen; Grandfather’s thoughts are hidden Upon the bowling-green. The sky’s enough ambition For anyone to eye; Forecasts of nimbus, aeroplane, Pass over, and pass by; And sleeping home, the passive With some feet on the ground Sleep though the radio-active Have a new formation found. The weather is establishedIt will be wet-or fine: The houses have been furnished Since eighteen sixty-nine, No need to worry, hurry. The weather yet will keep. ~ The clouds and airmen marry And the boisterous children sleep.
Louis
Johnson
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 794, 8 October 1954, Page 16
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149SONG IN THE HUTT VALLEY New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 794, 8 October 1954, Page 16
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