Fugacity 05
Online Poetry Anthology

Maggie’s Guide to the Hot Lakes

                                                    is no Dantesque itinerary
                (Maggie Papakura
                                                    Auckland, 1905)
                                                                                       instead, a concordance
          to someplace
                                 through which we’ll pass
                                                                            a century on, en route
                to hang ten
                                      at Waihi
                                                    (figuratively:
                                 my sense of balance

                                                    extends to words only)