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LATE AT NIGHT, LAMBTON QUAY

ITCHED out by the cable car, and still arguing, Some stayed, overcoats agape, gesticulating on the pavement, But we came on, looking for a hot drink. Apart from the car’s bright cave there was little light; Shut shops, footsteps, echoing, fell yet in a pattern Which was the expected ending to an evening. We found, as we knew we would, a late coffee shop, Beacon, though shabby, and soiled with the day’s spilled dregs; It was the only place to go. What matter? Comfortably here, Wellington, whether visited That day was film, football match, or writers’ conferenceIt was all one shoulder-rubbing, at night anyway. Though midday might heve separated poet, tram conductor And Royal Air Force wife; out of the dark they had wandered in, Willing to belong there, and be satisfied. To take the hot drink (clatter of kitchen extraordinarily Loud at such an hour) pay at the counter; then, Shock of the off-key, askew, counterpoint That yet makes whole, gives meaning; to see Waiting while her companion brought food, the Chinese girl, Remote and beautiful, with a face like a lotus flower.

Paul

Henderson

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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1051, 16 October 1959, Page 26

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191

LATE AT NIGHT, LAMBTON QUAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1051, 16 October 1959, Page 26

LATE AT NIGHT, LAMBTON QUAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1051, 16 October 1959, Page 26

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