New verse by Kaipara poet Sam Hunt.
Reminding me
I call my mother
thirteen years dead
the phone says there’s
nobody home.
The phone is right.
My mother hung it up
thirteen years ago, then died…
But none of that stuff stops
our night time chats,
my mother telling me ‘Lycidas’
pretty much word for word.
And I, the first one who heard,
trying to help her through.
Then she, reminding me.
Sam Hunt, 2017
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Sam Hunt
Sam Hunt remains the most outstanding lyric writer in New Zealand verse. His first book of poems From Bottle Creek was published in 1969; his most recent book Salt River Songs was published in 2016. Sam was born in Castor Bay in 1946.
