Lots of things to do in the Library
Come with a Couplet and swap it for a cupcake
Carry a Poem in your pocket
Come into the Library and illustrate a poem
Pavement Poems - chalk your favourite poem on the quad
More information coming during the week.
In the meantime - here’s a poem for you to enjoy written by:
E Wen Wong Burnside High School Year 13 2020
Winner of the Victoria University Schools Poetry Award 2020
the house that Saturn built
we forget sometimes that
Matariki rises
blue fuchsias on diesel clouds
there is a slow exhale of Subaru Foresters
sowing seeds in the night
-soil of dark matter
-clouded humus of stars.
Come Matariki
a cosmic Atlas holds up the sky
-Seven Sisters, planetary guardians
etched on infinite light
Saturn, God of Agriculture
-jaded-jeweller, crafter of rings
-hoola-hooper, arctic-irrigator
centre-pivot around the sun.
They say Ōtautahi is the house
that Saturn built
hemmed to rubbled plains
God of Agriculture laid his laurels
built a greenhouse for the Foresters to stay
we forget sometimes
Come Matariki dusk
humanity plants synthetic grass
cachous loop black-ribbon moons
in the glass of the milky way
nitrogen streams, methane-clouded milk
blue turf dented with Hockey Sticks
-Ngā Puna Wai for the tributaries
-Ngā Puna Wai for the tributes
to the facade of the house that we built.