The Gift by C. K. Stead
Allen Curnow 1911 - 2001
Brasch in his velvet
voice and signature
purple tie
complained to his
journal that you had
'interrupted'.
I wasn't sorry.
That was Somervell's
coffee shop
nineteen fifty-three.
Eighteen months
later you and I
were skidding on the
tide-out inner-
harbour shelvings
below your house
from whose 'small room with
large windows' you saw
that geranium 'wild
on a wet bank'
Brasch in his velvet
voice and signature
purple tie
complained to his
journal that you had
'interrupted'.
I wasn't sorry.
That was Somervell's
coffee shop
nineteen fifty-three.
Eighteen months
later you and I
were skidding on the
tide-out inner-
harbour shelvings
below your house
from whose 'small room with
large windows' you saw
that geranium 'wild
on a wet bank'
The Gift by C. K. Stead
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