09-30-2017, 10:03 PM
Excerpt from a Gold-hunter's Journal
Her name was Anahera
but we called her "May"
a cross-eyed, small-titted
Maori girl with scarecrow hair
and limbs like knobby branches,
built for navigating the rocks
and the bush along the Tuapeka river
and skin the dirty color of yams
But she could speak English
warbling it out lke a Kakapo
as she led us through the thick
country in search of gold.
And when we found it
glimmering lke cat's eyes
from the gulch
we plucked her crooked teeth
and filled her mouth with gold.
Her name was Anahera
but we called her "May"
a cross-eyed, small-titted
Maori girl with scarecrow hair
and limbs like knobby branches,
built for navigating the rocks
and the bush along the Tuapeka river
and skin the dirty color of yams
But she could speak English
warbling it out lke a Kakapo
as she led us through the thick
country in search of gold.
And when we found it
glimmering lke cat's eyes
from the gulch
we plucked her crooked teeth
and filled her mouth with gold.