But I remember the bay that never was
And stand like stone, and cannot turn away.
- James K. Baxter, ‘The Bay’
Two fantails called in today, flew
down the hallway to your
old room. (You’re too weak for the
stairs). Twin velvet heartbeats
loop de looped a wild Kabuki dance
round the rafters, then suddenly
out.
Dublin Bay is a bay on Lake Wanaka, New Zealand.
This poem was first published in the Otago Daily Times in July 2014. It is also featured as one of the poems in the 'Poems in parking metres' Poetik project at the Settler's Museum, Dunedin, NZ.