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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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“Thank You For Everything,” Is What I Wanted To Say.
Kermit encounters a bug after a breakup.
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Hau’ofa, E. (1994)
For ‘future ANCESTORS’, Josh Toumu’a draws close the sea of islands of Epeli Hau’ofa—finding points where their waters met.
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Love, death, church, and werewolves
This poem from Scout is a guilty reflection on the hyper-intensity of a relationship which was supposed to be casual and the tendency to look for salvation in the things that kill us fastest.