Massey Campus (9.00 am)

[photograph: Jack Ross (2006)]

Cruisy morning, eh?

White haze above the hills
of Albany

“pools of fir”
(H.D.)

or “sooty altars”
(Curnow)

cracker stuff
I like the crosses, man

sparrows bob
across the cobbles

high heels click to class

[First published in Bravado 2 (2004): 22].