Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 3, April 6th, 1949.

From "The City has a Current"

From "The City has a Current"

In a dream
I saw an organ system form
in my city
whipped along
by its own clashing stream.
It had a lung
filled with stale [ unclear: flirt] air
into which the person [ unclear: milts].
and pulsing arteries
as rattling [ unclear: convegor hilts]
with their [ unclear: rxcaptd corpuscles]
clanging doura the [ unclear: strut] as trams
in [ unclear: sustlcss mechanical bustle]
and a brain to [ unclear: ser]
in the [ unclear: sullen sterli still]
of a slowly ticking library . . .
instead of a heart
chronicles of crumbling stone—
built once by seeing hands—
with their [ unclear: mildewed blindness]
as a [ unclear: blunt mil opitome.]

—H. Ralph Unger.