Kathryn
I'm glad I was wearing underpants
on the roaring bashing edge of the
Breaker Bay surf
reading my book
when you and David
and the children
walked through the cutting
I wasn't feeling
sociable
I was probably feeling sick
I'm glad I
made the effort
the last time I lit up
with your
Life Begins When We Smile
Pallesen
radiance
I'm angry and sad
with your Dad
my barely glimpsed frend Bevan
and South Otago
for you
lovely
vibrant and knowing
any summer night
about five
it's not okay to jump on a horse
alone
and ride.
KYLIE
And if anybody
bothered listening to people like Bevan and Dawn and Donald and Dorothy
a father protecting his son
from being raped and knifed
would be alive.