Childhood Apology – yes, I took the pear I apologise Didn’t mean it to be so random It just caught my eye Wasn’t meant to be so like it was It just happened that it was Didn’t mean it to offend wanted it so much Maybe now we’ve had this talk we can forget …
Category: 2015
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Kristina Jensen
1 | 2 Fire Food out of fire comes food blackened and burnt: transformed not by measured touch of pipe or wire instead by a hot and barely controllable sinuous dancer, one who assumes you like tasty morsels encased in charcoal Kristina Jensen considers herself a ‘poet afloat’, living as she …
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Judith Lofley
The Gossip Killings The awkward shape of the hunting party emerged from a misty cloud of rain into the dull dusk light. At first, all I heard was my mother’s painful moan but as the procession moved near, I saw the slung form on the back of my father’s horse and I too joined the …
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Hannah Schenker
Come over We could cook and stare and eat awhile, smoke with the sky, incensed, watch the darkness watch the ocean in me changes direction. We will not be the first We will not be the first We will not be the first to seek the light to stalk the stars to …
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G.M. Allen
Why the Pākehā Have No Fairies Few know that the very first and last European fairy to land on the shores of Petone beach did so in the arms of a five-year-old girl. Her name was Caroline Petherick and she called her oak sprite Oaky. His real name, if spoken aloud, would sound to …
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Darshi Ranmuthu
Roots ‘Ludwina.’ On the verge of slumber she heard her name. She looked back, to the right and back again. Why did it happen every time her eyes shut? She could not expect the air hostess who had just passed by, in a peacock-patterned outfit, to know her name. She looked to her right …
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CONTENTS 2015
G.M. Allen Why the Pākehā Have No Fairies Donna Banicevich Gera Writing & Tapas Jenny Clay Surveillance Janet Colson Chocolat June Crane Home-made Bread Sarah Delahunty True Origins Mary-Jane Duffy The Left Bank Collage Nicola Easthope Centrepiece Kiriwhakapapa Liz Elson Georgy Porgy Catherine English Gun Laws My East Coast Table Ann French Meagre Rations Olivia …
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