Resonance XIX
This image was taken
on the far side of the first swing bridge past Mt Aspiring hut
on the track up to Shovel Flat. We were looking for "boulders
as huge as houses" and here the river reaches a point where the
river and the rocks become wilder and wilder. About lies the evidence
of torrents of gushing water and boulders strewn about. In the
foreground is a huge slab of schist wiped clean that provided
the perfect platform to shoot from. Native beech trees line both
sides of the river with the odd one ripped from the bank and left
half dragged into the flow of the river.
Map of Brighton indicating where the image Resonance XX as taken from
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James K Baxter - Poem
references
Poem
in the Matukituki Valley CP
and stumbling where
the mountains throw their dice
Of boulders huge as houses...
Three emblems of the
heart I carry folded
as charms against flood water, sliding shale
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