The Second Half

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The Second Half
Illustrated poem on turning 50.
Edition limited to 40
Handbound in black leather with harakeke (New Zealand flax) endpapers.

32 pages, each line illustrated
A5 size
Limited edition, 40 copies
Books numbered and signed
ISBN 0-9583372-4-1
$80 plus postage.

The Second Half
It is my fiftieth year
From nothing to nowhere
I am content.
In these consequences
Of my unguided choosing,
Fortune-ate.
Viewing my dry Autumn
In this damp Spring,
The arid if-onlys
From early promise
Are as nothing
To this young girl's fist
Full of wet daffodils.

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