Excerpts from
A _ P I E C E _ O F _ W O R K
Murray Edmond   2002   $7
Designed by Ken Lincoln

42

for the love of pete            or of mike

                        just relax                happy as larry

                anonymous men with names

when she looked out into the lens she saw herself

                represented by another

                    his booming plummy voice was the result

Murray Edmond is author of 8 volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is Laminations from Auckland University Press in 2000.  He is a noted editor and scholar of New Zealand experimental theater who teaches in the English department at the University of Auckland and works professionally as a dramaturge.