The Drummer by Ian Wedde

Author:Ian Wedde [Wedde, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 1993-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

We leave at dawn. All around us

the real-estate of an impossible dream

littered with the season’s picnics.

This clumsy tumbril, these groaning drays —

these phrases must convey us

to a frontier already made redundant

by brochures. Mouth filled

with grey, glacial water, Julius von Haast

lies: not a man, and not a river

but a sediment of words

dredged against banks where the

clearfell flinches, against

mirror lakes whose reflections of tourists

are immobilised by nostalgia.

A grey skein of maps unravels to the interior.

This perspective which improbably broadens

with distance — this too, cataracted, misty and sublime,

alluvial gold overhung by vivid moss — this too

lays down its barrage of signage before us.

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