Sport 35: Winter 2007
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after a gratifyingly plump
winter kereru
thumped feet first into a tree
beside our heads
I talked to one of the Sisters
about the weather and the church restoration
three-quarters done with scaffolding
still around the steeple
floorboards back in
pews and tabernacle yet to return
then we slid our way up the mud track
to where a woman with dreads
floated out of a dark house waving permission
for us to visit the burial site
steeped in thirty-odd years' peace