Rata Gordon

Rata Gordon is a poet, creative facilitator, and dance and drama teacher. Her poems have been published in many literary journals, this year in Best New Zealand Poems, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, Sport, Atlanta Review, Brief, and Geometry. She lives on Waiheke Island.

 

What’s true? What’s false? See if you can spot the lie.
None of these are lies.
Nice try, but you haven’t found the lie.
Rata has poems published in ‘Sport’, ‘Atlanta Review’, ‘Brief’, and ‘Geometry’.
Not a lie! This is true.
She lives on Waiheke Island.
Sorry. This is true.
Rata is a poet, creative facilitator, and dance and singing teacher.
False! Rata does teach dance but not singing.

By Rata

I was born and the world was messy
Illumination
Belly-brain