Resonance XVI
I searched around
a wide area of Tarras to try and find an image that related to
the project. This is in fact of the Lindis River which caught
my eye late one evening and I walked down the right bank searching
for an appropriate image that eluded me before the sun sank below
the horizon and darkness set in. I returned the next afternoon
and walked down the opposite bank until I came to this spot where
a rusted cable from the gold-dredging days had caught in the rushing
rapid while across it was snagged a thin branch of willow. With
the few small willow trees on the horizon, it seemed to complete
the image.
Map of Brighton indicating where the image Resonance XVI was taken from
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James K Baxter - Poem
references
Night
in Tarras 1947 CP
By Tarras where
a shadowless sun beats down
on range and river, scorching snowgrass brown
and dawarfish trees - we came where a small
stream flowed
From the rocks, a fructifying angle, glowed
To My Father in Spring 1966 CP 365
That smile like a low sun on water
tells of a cross to come.
Brown Bone 1961 CP 229
All
the way to Gabriel's Gully.
I stretched out
like a log
Dreaming of girls and cider,
And death came like a riding man
With hooves of mountain water.
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