Do the Speed Wobble
- David Howard
Poets are walking
A fine line, talking
About the subject's
Decline. All objects
Go gentle into
The yonder's wild blue.
'They were better then.' -
The complaint of men
Who only reach back
So they can attack
Those young guns ahead
Measuring what's said
By the clear echo:
'But how can we know?'
• David Howard, a Dunedin based-poet, was the 2009 recipient of the NZSA Mid-Career Writers' Award. His collection The Incomplete Poems is due out from Cold Hub Press next month.
