Stephanie de Montalk

Children

for Bill Hastings

Would Picasso
have drawn them
differently:

thrown voice waves
and quavers
like wooden pegs
into the air,

related the central eye
and cupid mouth,

the cool green lips
of the blue face
dreaming,

the cheeky circle
sucking a lollipop
or smoking a pipe
with the symbol
approaching shorthand
for ‘oration’
or ‘patient’ as hair,

to such a nonchalant sash,
such an equanimous
seagull sky?

 
Poetry
Hinemoana Baker (audio)
James Brown (audio)
Rachel Bush (audio)
Jen Crawford
Emily Dobson
Megan Johnson
Andrew Johnston
Stefanie Lash
Anna Livesey
Stephanie de Montalk  
Marty Smith
Elizabeth Smither
Cath Vidler
Sue Wootton
Sonja Yelich

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