Gifford tramping party at Ball Hut, Mt Cook - Alexander Turnbull Library

Alexander Turnbull Library

Gifford tramping party at Ball Hut, Mt Cook

Backcountry Huts


By: Andy Gray

Description:

Once in a while
you may come across a place
where everything
seems as close to perfection
as you will ever need.
And striving to be faultless
the air on its knees
holds the trees apart,
yet nothing is categorically
thus, or that, and before the dusk
mellows and fails
the light is like honey
on the stems of tussock grass,
and the shadows are mauve birthmarks
on the hills.
-Brian Turner


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