Title: Blue Hills 25

Author: Laurie Duggan

In: Sport 6: Autumn 1991

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, April 1991, Wellington

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Verse Literature

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Sport 6: Autumn 1991

Blue Hills 25

Blue Hills 25

Cape Woolamai from Kilcunda:
the sky too subtle for a vulgar type
like John Martyn . . . Turner perhaps . . .
Sunlight Through A Bespattered Windscreen;
A Pearliness Below The Cliffs, July 26, 1990.

This last hour
the rocks disclosed by water where a boy cringed,
thirty years back, from the texture of anemones
hurled by an irate uncle

page 106

—an image of petty violence
beyond the powers of the nineteenth century?

New grass in the bridge's shadow slants
as it did in photographs; the railway
runs off its trestles deep into sand.