PAULA KING

 

Mum’s joints

 

​joints have a rocking mechanism 
they injected hers         with gold 

which made them             glow 
only briefly         for Mum’s joints 

had been smoked         and now 
they were ashes     but before that 

they were pivotal moments ​

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paula King lives in the Manawatu with her daughter’s cats Frank and Tui.