Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Student's Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 4. March 26 1968
A Soldier's Mother sat Weaving
A Soldier's Mother sat Weaving
A soldier's mother sat
weaving memories
and a wicker basket
as she had woven
her son's life
through eighteen years
until the knife
which cuts cane
to basket shapes,
cut life to suit
the plans of states
Allan Marett