Poem: ‘The Game of Tag’
Allen Curnow, 20 October 1994
AFRIKA POET HERO DODGER FELIX DEVOE CURSE EXIT CICERO BEASTIE SAINT THANKS FOR THE TAG AFRIKA POET ’93
Graffito, Lone Kauri Road
Seven thigh-thick hamstring-high posts,
embedded two metres and cemented
in, where the side of the road burst
into bird space, tree-toppling all
that plunging way down. A clean-cut
horizon shapes daylight. A gap.
Where the sea glares back at...