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| − | From ''On the Level, Mostly Canterbury Poems'' W. Hart-Smith Printed Timaru Herald 1950. | + | [[File:Onthelevel.jpg]|right]From ''On the Level, Mostly Canterbury Poems'' W. Hart-Smith Printed Timaru Herald 1950. |
Maori Oven's opening line sets a context of excavating into turf with a shovel. Another poem in the book is entitled 'Cave Paintings". | Maori Oven's opening line sets a context of excavating into turf with a shovel. Another poem in the book is entitled 'Cave Paintings". | ||
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Maori Oven
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You cut into the warm earth
and shatter the dead shells into bright fragments.
Why does a piece of obsidian, a bone pick
sharp as yesterday, give you so much
pleasure? Leave it alone, Pakeha,
leave it alone!
(Last six lines)
[[File:Onthelevel.jpg]|right]From On the Level, Mostly Canterbury Poems W. Hart-Smith Printed Timaru Herald 1950.
Maori Oven's opening line sets a context of excavating into turf with a shovel. Another poem in the book is entitled 'Cave Paintings".
The book's cover featured a reproduction of a cave drawing by Theo Schoon.
Hart-Smith was a sometime adult education tutor in Timaru and gave assistance to Schoon. He was British born and resident at times in Australia and New Zealand. He produced many volumes of poetry.
