Reign Rain

REIGN RAIN

Neither juggernaut
man
nor crawling thing
with saintliness and ease

can bring
a mountain weeping
to its knees
quicker than rain:

that demure leveller
ocean-blessed
cloud-sent
maker of plains.

Hone Tuwhare's poem neatly summarises a thousand geography lectures. Issues of time and space intrigue me - the size and span of the universe; and within that the little speck that is our planet. And on it the constant rearrangement of rock and soil and water. Against such a vast background we carry on our enterprise.