The Friday Poem: ‘Highway 61 (Old)’ by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
New verse by Christchurch poet Jeffrey Paparoa Holman.
Highway 61 (Old)
So by accident I found the road that gave you song,
by need alone I drove the miles where Abraham,
the way you tell it, heard God say, “Go kill your son.”
I slid a CD in the player. I turned the music on.
From Dylan Junkie by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman (Makaro Press, $25), a sequence of poems inspired by and dedicated to Bob Dylan.
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Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman is the author of Now When It Rains, a memoir published by Steele Roberts in November 2018. He has written nine collections of poetry, including Blood Ties: New and Selected Poems 1963-2016 (Canterbury University Press, 2017); Dylan Junkie, a collection of His Bobness fanboy poems (Måkaro Press, 2017.) Jeff was born in London in 1947.
