CARVING and SCULPTURE
           
                
                   BOOZER of BLUE
                  "Backstairs" Cape Coutts
           
                  I'm waiting for you whale.
                  They say you were off Victor
                  And will be ploughing down the passage
                  I want to see you from my windows,
                  You big boozer of blue.
           
                  Come on you beautiful big bastard,
                  I'm waiting in my windows
                  Drinking as much as you will today.
                  Swim into my mind's ocean
                  And breach for the blue of it. 
           
                  Breach and dive and sound in me,
                  I've hunted your freedom
                  And want to catch it today.
                  You've got a bloody good mate up here,
                  A swimmer, survivor, drinker and innocent. 
           
                  POEM    Peter Eason