Brent Kininmont
Except for a year in Wellington completing a masters in creative writing, Brent Kininmont has for the past decade lived in Tokyo, working mostly as a journalist. His poems have appeared in Landfall, Sport, Turbine and elsewhere.
Kininmont comments: ' "Morphine" is a memory of my mother, though it once had a different title and was about my child sleeping.'
Poem: Morphine