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Flood
Hone Tuwhare

Small Holes in the Silence
Collected works
Godwit
© The Estate of Hone Tuwhare

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Flood

In the back country
hard rain
is bucketing

Here
in the narrowing light
the river bellows
fatly

From high ground
I mark
twin rows of willow
dishevelled arms
clutching drunk roots
hoarding
bits of old bridge-planking
the body of a beast
puff-bellied
hind feet sticking out

I ask:
when will the waters clear
the eels breathe easy again?

Shall I be able to ford
the river soon: visit
a lean Aunt?

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from rain​-​talk and fever, released November 7, 2016

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