Monday, July 28, 2008

From Six Great Barrier Elegies: 2. The Grey Mare Comments

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Once in our clematis days your hooflets trampled tamariki-a-Tane:
rimu, totara, miro, ti, kahikatea, nikau,
startling the tui from the kowhai, the ruru in the kauri.
Then the settler's wife, lingering in the tin privy after tea,
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Adeline Foster 08 September 2011

At first this sounded like it might be something like The Old Grey Mare, She Aint What She Used to Be. But no it was much, much deeper. At first I thought I might find you in France. But no New Zealand, now how did that come to be? Referring to the Flag ID. Good Job Adeline

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Rob Dyer

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