Poor Richard
dear kanga
Leave Report
Sabbatical • Departure • Arrival • Elgin Crescent • A Shot of the British Museum • At the Victoria and Albert • The Book of Kells • At Kew • Through Pisa • Return to Iffley • Mordros
Source: Poor Richard: Poems. Wellington: Port Nicholson Press, 1982
Electronic source: Poor Richard: a TEI-conformant transcription
All poems © W. H. Oliver
10
on poohsday the eighth
day of the fifth week
of the thirteenth month
of the year before the first
trouble came when the
holidays ended and kanga
grew anxious and bothered
old eeyore no longer
found the best thistles
grew by the river
no one remembered
to watch for the day
dawned dark as the first
of the week and the month
and the year that began
when poohsday the eighth
day came to an end