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Husk
Poems by Chris Price
Chris Price
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Husk
Poems by Chris Price
Chris Price
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This a lively and enjoyable first collection of poems by a writer who is well known in the New Zealand literary world and who has published widely in journals. It is a polished, elegant, and mature work. Chris Price's poems are characterized by witty surprises, sudden unexpected shifts of image, and many forms of wordplay. Covering a wide range of interests, themes, and tones, there is an alertness and sense of delight about these poems.
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The mirror vendor
The mirror vendor carries the day
beneath his arm, bringing hills and horses with him
and on his head at night a moving tray
of stars to be served at the party
of DoƱa Juanita, packed in their dark ice.
The mirror with the red and gold frame
contains chickens and a small boy
leaning against a dusty blue wall,
disdains the khaki soldiers
trying to blend in with their guns.
Some take him for a thief
but his pale brown palms are clean
as the glass he polishes every day.
Windows regard him jealously
as he passes, giving the Friday girls
a spray of lights from the barberās shop
under a backward arch of red
and white letters as they leave work
in search of lovers and husbands, their
heels unpicking sequins on the puddled
pavement, a shining path
that leads them safely for this one
enchanted evening into dense
equatorial air, swimming in the mirror vendorās river.
A drop of mercury
Great-aunt Helen
orbits Emily Way
twenty years of houses, friends
suddenly unfamiliar
she keeps the vertigo
to herself (a drop
of mercury)
walks the shopping trolley
remembers flying
her first Piper Cub
at 35
and a canoe
on the Amazon
(still a secret
from her grand-daughters)
looks at her life
star cooling at the
wrong end
of the telescope
long nights in a room
only gravity listening.
Mexican couple
She loves the milky gaze
the way he looks through her sometimes
from where heās been.
And he? Also loves, but lacks
concentration.
They try to break
and for a while āthe hours
were brokenā but
history sticks them back
together, a rough match
until one burns out
in a halo of fire.
Sometimes unhappiness
ā his affairs, her operations ā
makes a pair perfect
this too is written
in the bestiary of marriage
the elephant, the bleeding ...