Thursday, 30 April 2015

Oneiric (Christchurch earthquake poem originally published in PNZ 46)

(written in 2011)

Catwalk dangling from a rippling blackness

by a metal chain... with men in hardhats,
six or more of them, unable to stand
straight & sliding into one another,
just like helicopters moving girders
into place so swiftly that the girder
tilts & rocks... towed by obsidian flat
ovoid rippling oil-slick stormy blackness.