COUNTRY BUS STOP
AHU on the suitcase sits Singing to the brown guitar, He waits by the greylit pole For the morning bus to take Him on his Saturday spree. Fern strums over quail, the frail Convolvulus in pink outcry, Around him spread the crowing Lowing fields of his workaday. The tango that not jazzily He sings reverberates lament, Plucked strings follow his voice With the slow steps of his hands, When he boards the bus Winding into the hills He leaves a longing hollow Where his voice has been Telling of love and remorse: Where his voice has made An irreplaceable sound Drawn from star-digged wells Fed by no man knows _ What brackish underground.
Gloria
Rawlinson
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 926, 10 May 1957, Page 14
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117COUNTRY BUS STOP New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 926, 10 May 1957, Page 14
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