09.17.2018 - By VOICEMAIL POEMS
remember bodies at night
how they glow
how they bend into us
like refracted light
the memory of where a body was
after it has left its phosphorescence
you cocoon into
the spaces around things
find yourself
in auburn eyes and hazel skin
the red that flows from you
you learn that aloneness is a softness
a sky that pulls you through
you see bodies as they are
things that love you and then stop
when you wake up it’s heavy water
write down the deep green blue feelings
like paua shells
there is a pale existing in your head
a light moving in your hair
behind a colour
in the lunar month you return home
the whenua moves its arms up to greet you
climb up the hill to see the faraway beach
feel lonely like mislaid keys
it’s good to be there in the quiet
saying to yourself i’m real i’m real
as the feelings inside shrink red into shape
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Stacey Teague called us from Clonakilty, Ireland.
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