The Wednesday Poem: ‘The further you look’ by Sam Hunt
All week this week we present new verse, to celebrate Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day on Friday. Today’s poet: Sam Hunt of Kaipara.
The further you look
‘The further you look the
less you see’
she said as she smiled &
went down on me.
She talked of her marriage
a contract of kinds,
of truth & of love & of
two fucked minds.
For sure I loved him once
his little-boy look
that’s now just a wince
& love’s just luck.
We made love most of the night.
She cried a bit.
I liked ‘the less you see’ bit
‘the further you look’.
From Coming To It: Selected Poems by Sam Hunt (Potton & Burton, $30), available from Unity Books.
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.
