The Best of '… on Anything Really' 2011: National Poetry Day—& "The Curve of the World"

In the final of my "The Best of  '… on Anything, Really' 2011″ round up, I am featuring my National Poetry Day selection from Friday 22 July, last year  as my Tuesday Poem feature today:

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."Last year, I posted "Ti" for National Poetry Day, and this year I have chosen another poem that I feel has a distinctively New Zealand flavour in terms of landscape/seascape—I hope you enjoy.

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The Curve of the World

Summer breathes
through marram grass, salt-tough
where the southerly whips in
off the Pacific...