TRAVELLING HOME
PULLING slowly through the Waihi ‘Gorge, Tauranga a bare thirty miles off now, Paeroa long past, Karangahake goneOnly this clean, fast river now is left To leap and fall down seawards by the line. So Athenree appears, and down we fall In one fast plunge where first, like two grey mice Crouched head to tail, old Bowen Town appears Out on the white-laced coast, two distant humps The sight of which first makes me feel at home. A long, low island of pine-planted dunes. Goes sixteen miles up to Tauranga Heads From here. Outside's the open sea; inside, Mile after mile of shifting sandbank lies, And herons fish and little channels run By sticks and markers where the black shags perch. Inlets and harbours flow in to the line. Sometimes a fleet of swans heads round the point. We pull on past, through cutting, over bridge, Too fast for me to see all that I want, Too slow tor my impatience, till the line Swings ir: among the maize and pumpkin fields And here’s the town, the Mount, and all I love. But first I'll get my baés down from the rack, And find my ticket, and fold up my coatOne bricge to go--I'll stand up now and wait.
Pat
Wilson
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 821, 22 April 1955, Page 15
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213TRAVELLING HOME New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 821, 22 April 1955, Page 15
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