There are so many things to celebrate it seems the day is a birthday party to which even the southerly has come it blows out light and we wish                                                  we didn’t get up so early      this morning belongs to the Cook Strait Challengers who have been at the pool an hour pretending the other swimmers are sharks and the floating plasters are jellyfish     back and forth I dream I am Esther Williams starring strong and in symmetry with the Kahawai      their scales match my sequined swim-cap                                                           at home we celebrate the invention of tea by drinking four cups each by 9 o’clock      it is Tuesday and I am in love                                              when Garry the locksmith arrives he tells me how his Dorothy can write great poems in minutes and I tell him how David can make up country songs as he goes we are so pleased with ourselves that we laugh and the wind lifts our hair                                                     up above the seagulls caw      notes fly off and telephone lines dance in tuesday time