Castaly by Wedde Ian;

Author:Wedde, Ian; [Wedde, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 1980-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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: as a man might be lost

in that space where the battered hull’s

held tenderly against the wharf-buffers

where the same deep redolence rises

where the same light sifts

& the logs

swing over. the iron tackle

clangs, the chains are loosed.

The logs drop to their allotted place.

They will cross the Ocean of

Conrad’s dark heart.

They will be whittled into matchsticks

& sent back. little

masts. mysteries. to light

your fire.

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If you know anything

you line the grain up & strike to the side.

I get short ends from the wharf

for winter. I saw them up.

Then I split them & stack them.

The bright blade

breaks the grain the timber cracks I

breathe its sea-gasp.

Stacked, a spring tide. the dark shed

sails in a reek of pitch

airy fragrance

of destruction. the wood

burns bright & quick, the

ash goes

back to earth the gas

to air. A handful

a breath

of what the tree fed on.

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