LIQUOR MAKES US BOUYANT
By Lindsay Rabbitt
The Bengal Engine’s Mango Afterglow by Geoff Cochrane (Victoria University Press), 64pp., $25.
We’re smoking and drinking coffee at a table outside Victoria Street Café. Geoff Cochrane’s light blue eyes project a resigned, smiley, serious sort of look, and he cocks his beaky head and recites:
Ensanguining the skies
How heavily it dies
Into the west away;
Past touch and sight and sound
Not further to be found
How hopeless under ground
Falls the remorseful day. … More,,,