New verse by Dunedin writer Michael Hall.
After…
The organs begin
shutting down
is there a panic
in the body’s house –
a few resigned to stay
like, in war, before
the rat-a-tat advancement
merely miles away
of the grey enemy
a hasty packing
someone saying leave
the piano, leave it
another sits, lifts
the lid, begins to play
and where would
they be going to
the others, where.
Michael Hall, 2018
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Michael Hall
Michael Hall lives in Dunedin. Recent poems of his have been published in NZ Listener, Poetry NZ Yearbook 2022, and 1964: mountain culture/aotearoa.
