Resonance VI
Although many of the features are
still there that Baxter wrote about, the trees have changed the Giant's Grave area and
tend to disguise the nature of the place when Baxter was a boy.
There have been ditches dug to drain the flat land, one
at right angles to form the mark of a cross; however cows
rarely graze the banks these days and sheep have taken their place.
Across the horizon is a low profile of Saddle Hill, with part of the profile removed on the left of the left hump.
 Map of Brighton indicating where the image Resonance VI was taken from
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James K Baxter - Poem
references
The
Giant's Grave 1951 CP
of the brackish
river
cattle flats beyond it
Brimmed sluggish under gorse pods,
between them a narrow tumulus
manuka - groved, broom feathered
we called it the Giant's Grave
The Tiredness of Me and Herakles CP
They
cut one breast off to draw the bow string
the other breast keep to feed their children
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