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    by Hinemoana Baker, GDS #29

    Poetry

Little eel knows swimming is
a good substitute for the future.
She is the shiver of red hot pokers.
Oh! The mountain powder! she says.

Every day this table changes, bright
pages and rough rubbing dreams.

Something shining rivers through
and fades: no inklings allowed.

Di tells the joke about weighing a pie,
joins the decision queue, no longer
hungry. The machine delivers a coke
can with the sounds of a manufacturer.
My own day windows and purchases.

The eel wrings and scrapes, she flails and
reinstates. Cows engine up the paddock
as we move through bouncing, someone moos
and we call them out, a rove of globes.

Rearing has never been sixes and sevens
only clocking and facing. Elbows and
all other joints praise her
umbrellas and licklicking
a pot for her pito.
She is an aircraft of a thing

a mudflat factory, her feet
kicking in my throat
her fingernails
scratching the membrane of my eye.

We steamed you out, Little Eel.
We screamed and
teamed you out. Now fetch up
like a good grief girl, pinch your
wakeupfullness, it sunnies us.

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July 19th, 2020 / Poetry

Hinemoana Baker



 

  • Two Hands — Spoken word by Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa, with animation by Maeve Baker.
  • It Goes, I Had a Dream I Was Your Hero — by Madison Griffiths
  • The Singers — Spoken word by Eleanor Jackson, with animation by Maeve Baker.
  • Eggshells — by Kristen Tytler
  • Badenoch Street — by Jessica Kilkenny
  • Morbo — Words and reading by Jean Velasco.
  • Alien — by Joshua Badge
  • [in the pebbled rut] — by Christine Hamm
  • Nikes — by Danny Silva Soberano
  • from Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life — by Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle
  • astral projecting — by Ava Chapman
  • Harry Styles Is Interviewed On A Beach And The Horizon Aligns With His Sighs — Words by Maddie Godfrey & animation by Maeve Baker
  • What wouldn’t take root in the cucamelon garden — by Clare Millar
  • How to haunt — by Rae White
  • walls — by Laila Nawsheen
  • worms — by Eric Jiang
  • 8.44pm — by Ouyang Yu
  • one litre of blood — Words by Terri Ann Quan Sing & animation by Maeve Baker
  • Still Life in September, Two Years On — Spoken word by Fury, with animation by Maeve Baker.
  • natural history poem — by Jonathan Dunk
  • Memorandum — by Belinda Rule
  • Late and Soon — Poetry by Jennifer Compton
  • i am the ellipsis waving — by Eric Jiang

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