Tongues of Ash by Westwater, Keith -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Tongues of Ash A basket of apple trees Canterbury Visit, Winter 1982 Poems to the West Coast

Fragments from 1967 Burn time Town statue talk Rivers that feud with the sea The last word

The goose egg rock Trieste Street Trilogy

I II III

Return trip to the Hawkes Bay, St. Valentines Day Weekend, 2004 The moon is lashed by trees Winds and time The love of rocks and water Light and water Song of the Climate Canaries All in a day’s work Astrological gardening The pattern of standing gulls Show time Fulgura frango4 Variations on an early turning Tongues of ash The Snow-Sayer Rangipo grounding Navigation point on the Desert Road Coming back from leave The sinews of Ohau Bay The West Winds Gang is back Wellington Southerly What we were doing on Wahine Day11 The Bucket Man poems

The Stations of the Bucket Man 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 sConversation at the Gates of Heaven, 30 June 2003 Situation Report, July 2003

Today’s hui of gulls Landscape is…12 My first big empty13 Camera Obscura revealed14

1. The layered memories of a place 2. The play of shadows in the bush 3. Camera Obscura

Papaitonga Reserve in the duck-shooting season16 Very easily worked River talk Evensong in a graveyard of villas Field trip Tourists on safari for nirvana Yet another poem on home thoughts from abroad and gorse At Double Bay Facial impressions To the victor the spoils Yunnan Pines, near Shangri-La The expedition Why she is smiling National Anthem