We have not done those things
we ought to have done
Ginger-gem tussock
Rock and Pillar
lost ski village rooftop glint
this lovely range must slice through
knife
Middlemarch everything
The church Dad probably went to, I
New York Mike Hammer phase find.
Daffodil
pubescent
come to life branches
If spiritually
Dad gets through that
doorway into God’s welcoming love
Affirming
“Lighten our darkness...”
Sunday night
before 190 Dunedin
reassuring
renewing Common Prayer
rhythms we say together, me anticipating
weekdays with Wright —
“Fergus, I’ll Art Gallery you.” When he gets back
from the Oriental
full of beer and resentful.
1987 acrylic on hardboard 1200 x 900 mm