Laurie Duggan

Side by side

Blue Hills 44

So much of a city
is light on stonework, woodwork;
demolition turns us into archaeologists
using the maps;
memory,
a particular daub of colour
there, to the right,
of that mountain down the street.

August 1993

Laurie Duggan

(Australië, 1949)

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Blue Hills 44

So much of a city
is light on stonework, woodwork;
demolition turns us into archaeologists
using the maps;
memory,
a particular daub of colour
there, to the right,
of that mountain down the street.

From: New & Selected Poems 1971-1992

August 1993