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Wellington Harbour is a Laundry

by Denis Glover

Denis Glover

The harbour is an ironing board:
flat iron tugs dash smoothing toward
any shirt of a ship any pillowslip
of a freighter they decree
must be ironed flat as washing from the sea.




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