Notes from the Fernery
New poems about ferns, the harbour at night, a retired man’s mornings and a very good dog called Moss.
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After he retired, Alistair Kerr kept walking. Down the hill to the harbour, up the track through the bush, into the old fernery at dusk when the gates were closing. These new poems follow a year of those walks: moonlight on Otago Harbour, the shape a dog leaves in a room, rain on the tin roof and the green, patient company of ferns.
The moon comes up over Portobello and lays a road across the water
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For thirty years I looked after the glasshouse at a botanic garden in Dunedin: the orchids, the cacti, a banana palm that never once fruited and a tree fern older than my grandmother. I wrote poems on seed packets and watering rosters, and kept them in a biscuit tin under the potting bench. When I retired, the new curator found the tin and handed it back with a look I am still thinking about. These are some of those poems, and some new ones. I live on a hill above Otago Harbour with a wood stove, a lot of weather and the memory of a very good dog called Moss.
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