At Graeme’s
the sun is here
but the cold wind blows
through the living room
windows
I stare out onto
a landscape
forever falling away
tiers of corrugated rooftops
& granite buildings
to a sawdust harbour
Dunedin sprawls
like a crumpled jersey
looking down or up
there’s always something
to see…
soft jazz on the stereo
& you sit tapping away
on your laptop
about climbing rocks
I am living on muesli bars
& honey nut logs
we are filling our time
with lines on pages
waiting
Joanne Fisher
This poem was originally published in the anthology Climbing the Flame Tree and first appeared on this blog in December 2017.
I bet when I publish this WordPress will condense this poem into one stanza as it is doing with all my poetry posts these days. If it does (and probably will) the second stanza starts at the line “soft jazz on the stereo”.
Dunedin is the second largest city in the South Island (Christchurch being the largest). It’s built on hills and has some of the steepest urban streets in the world. Occasionally I would visit friends there.
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You’re right, it’s a single block of text, at least on reader.
Dunedin is a beautiful city. Are you a North islander?
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No I live in Christchurch
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Here’s a tip. Write your poem single line spaced with forced break to end of stanza in Word or similar. The copy & paste into WP. I can’t guarantee it’ll hold the format, but it does with mine (usually) And I use the Classic Editor from the WP Admin/All Posts menu
Good luck
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I use paragraphs and cmd/ctrl + return within paragraphs to create new lines. That’s the trick for spacing, but which you can’t do on phones.
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