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Stone weapons, flint, obsidian,
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''Stone weapons, flint, obsidian,
  
 
Weed and waveworn shell and bone
 
Weed and waveworn shell and bone
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Lie in mellowing sand with wood
 
Lie in mellowing sand with wood
  
Of wrecked ships and forests dead.
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Of wrecked ships and forests dead.''
 
 
 
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Revision as of 08:40, 19 May 2008

Pipikariti

Charles Brasch

Stone weapons, flint, obsidian,

Weed and waveworn shell and bone

Lie in mellowing sand with wood

Of wrecked ships and forests dead. ....Lines 1-4 of 20.

Pipikaretu on Otago Peninsula has a wind-eroded archaeological site. Pipikariti was a useage for the name.

in The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse 1960 Ed. Allen Curnow, Penguin Books.