Title: Skyhook; poems
Description: early poems - an example,

SERIES
 
the tones of useless talk on such a day as this
come without pardon thru fibrous hardboard walls
clanging bulbous lacquer at all angles
   better the man with a skin complaint who
rose early to avoid stares & startled me
 
She stood terrified
a pin piercing the edge of her eye
   & the bearers ran forward
waving emasculated fingers
calloused by abuse
   stepping foot high over the hot earth
 
I saw a primordial figure with bright shell eyes
set in sallow wood
   its arms hung one dangling around
the buckle in the abdomen
   fingers at the fountainhead
 
she lay facing out the window of an antique shop
& a young man stopped to watch
her move as she lettered
 
   'hop it,' she said, crossing her legs
 
the major's wife said
'I have a hooked nose side on'
& flapped her breasts about for picture taking
   the water wheel still turns
tho' long since disconnected
 
little girl swinging on a plate glass door
stubbornly involved
so that my amused eyes
were not answered
 
Lindsay Smith, Christchurch NZ , 1967
 
Conceived after the idea of 'Pictures at an Exhibition,' Mussorgsky
Subjects: poem conceived after the idea of 'Pictures at an Exhibition, ' Mussorgsky, primordial
Places: Christchurch, New Zealand
People: Lindsay Smith
Time periods: 1960s