The Friday Poem: ‘Overheard’ by Geoff Cochrane
01 Dec 2017
Culture
New verse from Wellington writer Geoff Cochrane.
Overheard
Scots College blazer, prefect’s badge.
A slenderly sturdy six-footer, dark.
He’s walking briskly with his head held high,
his cellphone pressed to his ear,
and this what I can’t but hear him saying:
‘Don’t do it. Please don’t do it. Please don’t do it, please.’
From the 2017 collection RedEdits by Geoff Cochrane (Victoria University Press, $25), available at Unity Books.
Geoff Cochrane
Geoff Cochrane is the author of 16 collections of poetry, two novels, and Astonished Dice: Collected Short Stories (2014). He received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award in 2014. Geoff was born in Wellington in 1951.
