THE PARSON'S ROCK
[/NDER the Parson’s Rock Where weeds of love loop every tide My three dead uncles walk, The gutted greenbone in their sack Spilling on scaJed stone a sea bright blood. On beaches to the moon’s bell From a wave's steeple swung, Old ghosts, the last grief over, tell How sweetly at the quick of the gilled soul God’s deepsea mercy moves, how praise from stones is wrung. But I, thin on the moon stranded Low lovers’ dune, alive must grieve For the true flesh time wounded, The prodigal Lent of a fisherman's harvest ended By the dry handed grave. ‘Only the bald rock Preaching to fishes, the lupin sheeted Bed of the swaybacked sinners, these will speak For the dead fishermen, and the moon awake
On waters by the fingered night braided.
James K.
Baxter
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 812, 18 February 1955, Page 8
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138THE PARSON'S ROCK New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 812, 18 February 1955, Page 8
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