Poetry in the water

Posted by Inki (Wellington, New Zealand) on 14 April 2008 in Cityscape & Urban.

Time for a theme week; all images published this week will have the Wellington harbour in common. Starting with a poem of Denis Glover from 'Wellington Harbour is a Laundry'. The poetry plaques are part of the Wellington writers walk.

The harbour is an ironing board:
flat-iron tugs dash smoothing toward
any shirt of a ship, any pillowslip
of a freighter they decree
must be ironed flat as washing from the sea.