The Tuesday Poem

The Tuesday Poem this week is The Topography Of Wellington from expatriate poet Jennifer Compton's award-winning book, This City.

Feature editor, Helen Lowe, told The Bookman that: "choosing just one poem among so many wonderful examples in Jennifer's book was a difficult task, but as I say in the commentary, '...from first reading I was captivated by the accuracy with which she captures the interwoven physical and emotional landscape of Wellington.' "

"The Topography Of Wellington

There is a darkness here: and also an itinerant rainbow

strolling like a twister with one lazy finger dipped in water.

There is a harbour: because of the rainbow there may be

a glory, like a saint's halo, which is an optical effect. Glory."

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The Topography Of Wellington

You can also check out other great poems from the international Tuesday Poem community, featured in the left hand side bar on the Tuesday Poem Blog -- including another of Jennifer Compton's poems, "The House of Wives" on Helen Lowe's own blog.