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Sport 40: 2012
The View from the Lookout
page 382
The View from the Lookout
for Denis O’Connor
there are two islands
anchored out there in the middle of the harbour
a large one and a smaller one a father
and a daughter maybe and there are a couple
of clouds they hang around for a bit and then they start
to drift off to the left towards the redoubt
there are waves that flow towards the coolness
of the bush where the black skirts of mamaku
tick like the clicky ‘beetles’
we used to play with when we were kids
pumping our thumbs up and down on the dimpled tin
which is all part of a long slow plunge into memory
—as the sky falls down in cascades into the sea
and birds fling up and drift
away way out over the beautiful blue (fatal) inshore ponding