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.