Skyhook; poems

early poems - an example,

SERIES

the tones of useless talk on such a day as this
come without pardon thru fibrous hardboard walls
clanging bulbous lacquer at all angles
better the man with a skin complaint who
rose early to avoid stares & startled me

She stood terrified
a pin piercing the edge of her eye
& the bearers ran forward
waving emasculated fingers
calloused by abuse
stepping foot high over the hot earth

I saw a primordial figure with bright shell eyes
set in sallow wood
its arms hung one dangling around
the buckle in the abdomen
fingers at the fountainhead

she lay facing out the window of an antique shop
& a young man stopped to watch
her move as she lettered

'hop it,' she said, crossing her legs

the major's wife said
'I have a hooked nose side on'
& flapped her breasts about for picture taking
the water wheel still turns
tho' long since disconnected

little girl swinging on a plate glass door
stubbornly involved
so that my amused eyes
were not answered

Lindsay Smith, Christchurch NZ , 1967

Conceived after the idea of 'Pictures at an Exhibition,' Mussorgsky