Coda

[photograph: Jack Ross (2006)]

Blinds
(at Massey Albany)

blocking
the wind’s
wolf-howl
as students
scribble

Judith
Fredricsen
walks past
towed by
her seeing-eye

dog
Hi Jack!
won’t stop
I stop
remember her

three months
after
the funeral
where Fairburn
walked

that poem
she cut out
read out
by me
he’s buried

over there