JENNY BORNHOLDT 

 

Summer

 
New white sheets 
on the line. 
Even the pegs 
are warm. 
 
Our youngest son 
leaks sand. 
 
Iris the dog snores 
on the green sofa. 
 
Cat!
 
Out!             we cry. 
 
My husband glows 
in the dark. 
 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jenny Bornholdt is current New Zealand Te Mata Poet Laureate. Her most recent collection is Summer (Victoria University Press, 2003). She has two further collections currently in preparation. In 2005 she co-edited the anthology, The Colour of Distance – New Zealand Writers in France, French Writers in New Zealand.