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Salient: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 9. 1969.

Portrait Of A Girl

Portrait Of A Girl

The placid moongilt harbour is
the mask beneath which, slowly
writhing like a leg in ecstacy,
a poor eel dying on a set line
shares her lonely last
with the gang of lice inside her
carving up her guts.

Derek Melser

Derek Melser

Derek Melser

On the sand, sunbathing
in my new togs, reading,
and having a few from my flask,
I must have flaked—I woke
to water hissing, cursing at my feet
and hurriedly got up (collecting my towel).
The beach was deserted;
the sun, behind the skyline,
blushing faintly ....

Derek Melser.