Friday, October 30, 2009

Higgs 8

Go home. With a chisel ruin the frame, climb through the window.
A duplicate, a duplicate,




Trowel for cultivating window boxes
Reference Number: 114/111/02-G



Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Higgs 7

Find the opening, stride through tall resistance, arms covering the face;
slide into the stream.
The keys unseen. Nor palpable among the boggy roots.




View of Mt Dumas, Campbell Island
Reference Number: PA12-1423-012

Monday, October 26, 2009

Higgs 6

Until a tabby cat
appears, stares, disappears.




Ann Finnimore surrounded by vases of flowers
Reference Number: 1/2-147836-F

Friday, October 23, 2009

Higgs 5

Hurry back down the bank steeper from above,
retrace the slippery track under the lupins,
brush off lupin flowers in a clearing edged with serried russet stalks,
no passage visible.




Plan showing the structure of an observatory tent
Reference Number: B-091-008

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Higgs 4

Feel for keys, braille-fingered over pen, lipstick, purse, phone, cards, diary, paper-clip. Not a jingle.



Flowers in fields near Sfax, Tunisia
Reference Number: DA-03012-F

Monday, October 19, 2009

Higgs 3

One wet shoe, damp pages stick together, gold high heels dancing,
a dress the colour of wild lupins, mascara, holidays, bin it.



Poul Gnatt and Julie Barker on sand dunes at Bethells Beach, January 1954
Reference Number: KW-0001-G

Friday, October 16, 2009

Higgs 2

Jump the stream, land in tough bracken.
A narrow track through lupins up the bank to the road, not a short cut.




Buller [1846?]
Reference Number: WC-325

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Welcome to 'Serial'

Kia ora from Cilla McQueen.

Welcome to Serial, an ongoing publication with images from the collections of the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa.

Keep an eye on this blog for installments every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The first chapter is titled 'Higgs'.

Higgs 1

Through waist-high grass cut through the empty section.
Bend to retrieve the glossy supplement falling out of the newspaper.
Slip ankle-deep in muddy water



Tussock grass plant aciphylla colensoi, 1961
Reference Number: 1/4-044636-F