This poem is taken from PN Review 28, Volume 9 Number 2, November - December 1982.

You Get What You Pay For

Allen Curnow

one more of those perfections
of still water with houses
growing like trees with trees dipped
in first light
             that pearl of a
cloud excited by sunrise
may or may not be priceless
fine weather is not what it
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