James Brown’s latest collection is Floods Another Chamber (Victoria University Press, 2017). He works and writes in Wellington.
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Waiheke
You yearn so much
you could be a yacht.
Your mind has already
set sail. It takes a few days
to arrive
at island pace,
but soon you are barefoot
on the sand,
the slim waves testing
your feet
like health professionals.
You toe shells, sea glass, and odd things
that have...