Dreamwork (for Karl)
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You make yourself so-
pohutukawa in cyclone season-
vulnerable.
You give yourself-
oystercatcher windsurfing-
such a hard time.
You know as well as I do-
massive landslide, Otira-
there's nothing stable.
You know as well as me-
flash floods in the Gorge-
the end of it all.
But you stand up
to your full height
and walk tall, past moss
on the bricks, through a door
in the wall. The key
is a dream you wove last
night: that explains it all.
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—Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
© 1997
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