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Lost Relatives
Paperback Edition: 1
Siobhan Harvey is the editor of Words Chosen Carefully: New Zealand Writers in Discussion and Our Own Kind: 100 New Zealand Poems about Animals. Her poetry and prose have appeared in many New Zealand and international magazines and anthologies, and have been broadcast on Radio
New Zealand.
A kiss is all it takes
to cast a shadow
over their courting.
He takes her, distant other,
by the hand and begins
to dance, to kiss,
setting in motion
her loss, like a chain reaction.
Four minutes
of gaping, of finding
an ache unspent,
of time unaccounted for.
They’re not alone.
Faraway as a black hole,
someone’s watching
this monochrome show.
Like a film, her body
sheets past his,
both of them whispers
pleading to move on.
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Featured in the 14 March 2011 New Zealand newsletter.
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Publisher : Steele Roberts Ltd
Publication date : 2011-03
Subjects: Non-fiction, Education / Language / ESOL