Unnecessary Recollection.

The old scullery sink, concrete trough with divider

Steel rim and lead pipes.

Mismatched taps bright chrome and dull brass

Sturdy timber structure on wide floorboards.


Lifted once for some plumb adventure

Domestic archeology, desiccated shoe and cat bone

Dry soil and chutney glass elsewhere.


Here a job lot of the same scullery sinks inverted

Along with a serried row of yellow bricks

A futile but homely breakwater playing

Peek a boo with the shiftless sands


A wry weekend battlement built by

An earnest Kiwi Cnut defining

The extent of the Kingdom

The Bailey the Papakianga.



The palace raised and the king in exile

The bush has returned with weeds rampant

And the remnant of a tended garden

Bright blooms of the season garland

Rusting tin and crushed gutter