What Broke and Became All Heart

My father lives in Lapland and shoots reindeer.
My mother roasts penguins at the South Pole.
I am the temperate zone.
They visit me to borrow lemons.

Fish & Chips with W. H. Auden

He shook his jowls
a little and found
good crafty words.

Te Awamutu Incident

Villa in a thunderstorm, the territory
of characters. Twice a year
it vanishes away.

Documentary

Suburbs full of husband and wife teams.
Beware the hydrangeas.