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Mythology of Place - 1993 - 94 - Lloyd Godman - Lawrence Jones
Brighton Coastal Otago World


Homage to Baxter  Resonance VI
The Brighton River and the Giant's Grave
1994

Resonance VI

Although many of the features are still there, 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, some in 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.

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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