Salient. Victoria University Students' Newspaper. Volume 39, Number 25. October 4, 1976

Rangataua

Rangataua

Johnson and his slide guitar
-Throat sobs and scratchy finger picking
As a freight train passes through the town.
The cold air bites my lip.

Through an open door, the mountain,
Grass as pale as an old man's beard.
I can sit and watch the sun rise
As the girls are brewing tea.

— Stephen Sinclair