Resonance IX
I had often driven
past this hut and it had always caught a glance. A friend of mine
who was conceived in it when her parents lived there when they
were first married and is also a relation of Baxter. I had to
go there several times to get the light right and while earlier
in the day the light clipped the front of the hut well, the strong
black "axe handle" shadow did not appear until later in the day.
At the time of taking the photograph, I spoke to the farmer who
said he knew Baxter and often saw him striding past the hut on
the way up Scroggs Hill.
Map of Brighton indicating where the image Resonance IX was taken from
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James K Baxter - Poem
references
Ode
1964 CP 305
Burnt black - till
the axe of dawn
Rise up from a hidden place
To show our flesh, burnt white
that a furious christ is born...
That the pioneering
men
had used as a cattle stall
To the desecrated earth
under hooked lawyer thorn...
Towards the Scroggs
Hill farm
May see a blaze of light
In a sod hut. |