JANE ARTHUR

 

Awake

 

Daytime, and things are
under the sun
like clouds, humans, shit
Name one new thing
you can’t
Daytime does something to us
wrenches us from sleep
impolitely, terrifyingly, like being
ripped from the womb!
(or our tomb!)

I wasn’t built for

what

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jane Arthur won the 2020 Jessie Mackay Award (Best First Book) for her debut poetry collection, Craven (VUP, 2019), at the 2020 Ockham NZ Book Awards. She completed her MA at the IIML in 2015, and currently co-owns and manages a small bookshop in Te Aro, Wellington.

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