Time for an outing (2017)

Time for an outing (2017)

(December 25, 2017) Time for an outing. Design by Bronwyn Lloyd (Auckland: Pania Press, 2017)

Time for an outing

for the boys
to monkey island
by way of the sea

of pillow cases
wooden junks
plying their trade

between the great birds
of the mainland
and the tiny

animalculae
so sedulously collected
from Browns Bay market

until the Gran
who knitted up
their pipe-cleaner bodies

each brandishing
a banana
above the head

to their lips
held out to make
a point

collapsed in harness
leaving the owls
and caterpillars to mourn

(23/1/16-19/10/17)

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