You’ll take your grandfather roller skating,
watch from the edge of the rink.
For dinner you’ll make rabbit stew
and discuss the character of poultry.
Rose petals as a garnish, but also to eat.
Not many people know you can do that.
Sometimes it seems you’re the only two people
in an absorbing, character-based mystery.
You know this is all adding up to something—the roller skating, the rose petals, the rabbits.
Bill Nelson (20th century) New Zealand
Source: NZ Poetry Shelf
From his book Memorandum of Understanding, Victoria University Press, 2016
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