Paradox

Judith Lonie

You so tender are so

rough, so coarse are so
delicate: if it were not so

you would not fit me.

I Love You Annie

Kathleen Gallagher

"I love you Annie"
she looked at him laughing
"you're a taxicab driver
I come from the mountains
you're a taxicab drive
and I can't sing here
you breathe like a city
I sing like the mountains"
"but I love you Annie"
he saw the snow in her eyes

Swimming

Jan KempNothing reduces you to your skin like the sea--cold ( Read more... )

Waiotapu

Fionnaigh McKenziePools laced with brilliant sulphides ( Read more... )

Like biting into stones, like rough sheets

Emily Dobson

I did not wash the spinach,
so the spinach was gritty.
Small stones sang in our teeth,

The new blue sheet
has pilled something chronic.
It's rough.

And see -
the little beetle -
upright pawing at the pane.

And the rain - it's
really coming down,
after so long.

Lake Rotoiti

Jenny Bornholdt

Grey herons
delicate
on the lawn

swans tipped
up, their red beaks
grazing weed.

Quickly, quickly
the grey rain comes
across the lake

then later, water
dark
under the black
hillside.

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She Was My Love Who Could Deliver

J. R. HerveyShe was my love who could deliver ( Read more... )

Response

Mary Ursula BethellWhen you wrote your letter it was April ( Read more... )

I've been shy about posting and commenting lately. Apologies to my friends-list folk if you've been wondering where I am.

Detail

Mary Ursula BethellMy garage is a structure of excessive plainness ( Read more... )

All the poems I've posted recently, besides the Housman and the Morgan, have been from an anthology called New Zealand Love Poems. They have some fantastic poets in New Zealand.

In Love

Jenny BornholdtThis is a piece ( Read more... )