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Salient: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 12. 1969.

Not Moved at all

Not Moved at all

It being late now, I, having come a long way
wander into a physical oblivion.
no longer, my feet being so sore,
able to stand.
So I sit, having come so far,
and let the darkness thicken round me my blood
until it is my darkness
and silence is mine in the middle of it.
And having come so far on foot,
so far just to sit here on a brick bridge
I wonder in my pocket of silence
at the noise of human wheels
and the roar of the din of their turning.
For it seems I have come from somewhere and out of nowhere
to sit by the black water running I have come,
and sitting so still I know
what I have left back there
and what I have forgotten,
and having come so far, not moved at all.