has returned -
it is dusk in a foreign country
a small boy is asleep on a bus
he wakes looks out a window
sees a tall building in shadow
atop a hill it is not a house
nor a church nor a shop
it has wires coming in and
out of it
The dream dissolves
but re-appears unbidden
over the years -
always the boy
always the bus
always the building
At some point
the man who was
once the boy
drove north
searching for
traces of his mother
under stones
on the shores
of his memory
He is drawn
to places
where the boy
had beach holidays -
with his mother
with his father
with his brother -
Waipu Cove
Martins Bay
Mangawhai
On the way to Mangawhai
he sees an electrical substation
perched on a hill by the road
The dream never returns
A memoir poem - one of many to come.
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