Sport 10: Autumn 1993
A New Word
A New Word
I have a new presence inside me.
You. It is a pale still day.
The tuis are really here,
I have seen them, three of them.
Thrush, tui—which is the most mellifluous?
A word I learned from Phyllis Webb.
'Drunken and amatory, illogical, stoned, mellifluous
journey of the ten lines.' If I could sing
like you, like her, tui, like spring water and
far off a rock falling.