Field Recordings 2015:08:23 16:58:09 – 2015:09:20 13:55:42 including Puhoi Pub Cavalier, Smart Services and NZ$27m flag sellout
field recordings 2015:08:20 14:38:22 – 2015:08:21 19:56:21 including “carpark or theatre?” and “welcome to Stonehenge”
Disappointment – by John Burnside, from the volume Black Cat Bone
Hope will predominate in every mind, till it has been suppressed by frequent disappointments.
Samuel Johnson
I turn left out of the rain
at Kippo junction,
the windshield clearing to sky and a skim
of swallows over the road like the last few
pages of a 50s story book
where
XVII
for Craig
walked among the wild comfrey and the weeds
naming fruit trees in nasturtium in the borage
bees worried and we about them on the edge
Craig in a collared shirt with an open face
of the day flung wide and garden earth
like the palm of a hand
XVI
imagine and all I had to my name these lines a spider knitting in cheese-wire
XV
I have composed a list of bodies
entering the cordon of the homicide
the victim lying in his cold cocoon
I have included my own
without compassion without enmity
my childhood bedroom
my father’s coffin
I have compiled the names
of femicides
opening the present to
continuing mutilation
to