Homage to
Baxter Resonance VI
Homage to Baxter Resonance VI
The Brighton River and the Giant's Grave
1994
Although many of the features are still there, the trees have changed
the Giant's Grave area and tend to disguise the nature of the place when
Baxter was a boy. There have been ditches dug to drain the flat land;
however cows rarely graze the banks these days and sheep have taken
their place. Across the horizon is a low profile of Saddle Hill. |
References:
The Giant's Grave 1951
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of the brackish river
cattle flats beyond it
Brimmed sluggish under gorse pods,
between them a narrow tumulus
manuka - groved, broom feathered
we called it the Giant's Grave
The Tiredness of Me and Herakles
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They cut one breast off to draw the bow string
the other breast keep to feed their children |
