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
Elgin Crescent
For a moment
part of this city
leafy, dirty, indulgent.
Katherine Mansfield
lived in this street
perhaps for it is not
recorded precisely
in this house or the next.
A prelude before the return
in more than imagination
to an unknown country
alive with unfinished business:
an exact traffic in needs,
a sufficient consideration.