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Like Walt Whitman, but Somehow Hornier
There is no way that Amanda Faye Martin is actually hornier than Walt Whitman (nobody is), but she’s still sort of in love with everything and so has offered this poem.
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We Are Grownups
Responsibility shifts as youth gets left behind in this new poem by Rupe Nestor.
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Haze
Kim Cope Tait writes of Ranfurly in boxes, fights and reconciliation, asphalt, eels, pumpkin soup and cheese scones in this expansive poem of young masculinity.
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BALDH3AD! / Ka Whawhai Tonu Mātou
A new poem by Isla Huia, after THEIA’s “musical assault on the plague of colonisation”, ‘BALDH3AD!’.
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girl on girl
Trying to be normal about female relationships challenge: failed by Emma Morrison.
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Lament of the Tūī
An observation of grief after a significant loss and how this manifests in whānau.
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Love Poetry (canal & cutis)
Meander Farrow writes about appearance, reaction, and truth in two love poems born from gazing at their partner across her gender transition.
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joy in the mun-dane
A blackout poem about the love Kate has found (romantic, platonic, self-love… take your pick) in her flat’s cosy, cluttered, warmly lit living room. Backgrounded by an article about cheese scones, of course.
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A Winning Line
Michael Gould tries on a pick-up line.
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“Thank You For Everything,” Is What I Wanted To Say.
Kermit encounters a bug after a breakup.
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GARLIC BOYS
Jiaqiao Liu finds a kindred spirit in the death pit.
Category: poetry
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