Resonance XIV
I had also passed
this gun emplacement on my surf trips up the Otago Peninsula but
never found the time to stop. Perhaps here more than any of the
other locations Baxter had taken licence and shifted elements
around, for it is Bird Island in the background that is isolated
at high tide and contains a large sea cave, perhaps resembling
the gun emplacement. It is also impossible to see the surf of
the ocean from down at the gun emplacement as the cliff edge drops
away almost vertically and there is some distance to the edge
from the emplacemant. But from the top, of the emplacement, the
view is spectacular. The access around the beach can only be gained
at low tide.
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James K Baxter - Poem
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Horse
They found an abandoned
gun emplacement on a point of rock that was isolated by the waves
at high tide..... They coupled on the concrete floor beside the
corroded cables. It was the hour of the hawk, not the hour of the
dove. While the waves chiseled at the rocks below, the mythical
identification with all living things was achieved. |
