TUESDAY POEM | Two stanzas from A Fiordland Notebook by CB

                                   The mountains do not remember

                                    asking the forests

                                    to shelter birds

                                    with silent tongues

                                    and leaves of bark.

                                    CB  |  Camelot River, Dusky Sounds, Western Fiordland 

                                   

                             When dawn comes and the ruru return

                                    we will cast our bodies

                                    on your banks and

                                    with spines to the ground

                                    and eyes wide open, wonder

                                    at the tenacity of moss, 

                                    the complex miracle of breathing. 

                                    CB | Camelot River, Broadshaw Sounds, Western Fiordland

This week's editor on the Tuesday Poem hub is UK-based poet Kathleen Jones with Another Exile Paints a Spring Portrait of Katherine Mansfield by Riemke Ensing. Kathleen writes, "This poem takes me straight to Mansfield’s account of being in John Fergusson’s studio - her descriptions of the china, the way the light fell across the room, all the colours, but it is actually a dialogue with one of Frances Hodgkins’ still-life portraits. . . "

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