1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Call to arms (dance) Now bending now falling now eagerly with a whole fruit in the mouth. Turn bitterly and swaggering toward sodden and crawling becoming more violent and grasping the torso. Tomorrow tomorrow narrated today there is a scent of Hare Krishna doughnuts and a …
Category: 2013
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LUCY MARSDEN
If I loved you If I loved you I would bake a cake with yellow icing and bring you coffee, real coffee, as you sat in your La-Z-Boy. We would discuss news of the day, quietly and calmly as befits our age, then I would teach you how to sew those buttons on your …
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MANDY HAGER
Excerpt from Singing Home the Whale 1. The Chronicle I was born on a night the moon drew the sea high towards her face. As the swell lifted my mother I slid into the water tail first, the cord snapping as she nudged me skywards to the icy air. Below me rang my family’s …
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LYNN JENNER
The hole Around the time I was reading about Holocaust survivors who lived in Wellington after the war, I found the sculpture Rudderstone* in the Botanic Gardens in Wellington. The sculpture has two faces. The one facing the path shows the Old World as shiny black mica-flecked-granite. The black granite is also said to represent …
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MAGGIE RAINEY-SMITH
By the yellow gingham chair there’s an apple core going brown by the books beside the empty glass of red wine, sediment like blood spilled near your empty chair where you sat last evening reading and the sun is a white line on the windowsill so still, the bookshelves, our photos deceased …
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KERRIN P SHARPE
1 | 2 | 3 they read rough maps of sky drivers step outside their cranes to get more distance from their skeletons some wear the spines of mice others chant doves spires steeples in latin to stay more alert because the curve of the earth has no industrial controls minds are balanced …
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KERRIN P SHARPE
1 | 2 | 3 Son Son /sʌn/n .1 [ of certain origin ] who inherits an occupation or quality 2. who man-hauls the open air/accepts scientific groupings: range maps ice joints/who opens the long hours of darkness with a shadow scale: then fusses over the evaporation of fuel/who discovers the hut’s talent for …
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KERRIN P SHARPE
1 | 2 | 3 pony 15 is lowered in a crate from the Terra Nova like a square of hare soup footage shows her be wil der ed with whiskey and lost in ice roots for God’s sake look after our ponies means their little hooves their little manes …
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KIRSTEN LE HARIVEL
Refuge After listening to Mazen Maarouf I see you outside the Arc de Triomphe watching a bubble blown into the crisp, winter air. You want to reach out feel the silky sheen run over your hand but you cannot. Caught in the haze of happiness interrupted all you can …
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KATE MAHONY
The man who liked to dance In his wedding photograph, Grandfather’s black hair is slicked back with oil. He holds white gloves. He looks like a man who might like to dance. On their honeymoon in the city, Grandfather took Grandmother to a tea dance. Grandmother told him she didn’t care to dance. So …
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