Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 11, No. 10, August 18th, 1948
Song for a Strike in Winter
Song for a Strike in Winter
The skyline reveals
The chimney-pot' maze
The glut of roofs
The narrow ways.
Cold grey stone
And cold grey slate
Rain-running gutters
Clouds in spate.
Clouds atumble
And roofs awhirl
The winter sky
Is a hungry girl
With shredded hair
And eyes afire
Where the wind-lapped streets
Bog down desire.
The works are silent
And the bus-lines lengthen
And the sirens are stilled
The picket-lines strengthen.
With night snow flurries
And helmets of steel
Rifles menace
The truncheons wheel
But the winter sky
In a spasm of mirth
Laughs a thunderclap
And salutes the earth.
K. J. Hollyman.
Paris,July, 48.