ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Loveday Why is a PhD candidate in avant-garde poetics and ecopoetics at the University of Otago. She has had work published in magazines and online magazines in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. This poem has been taken from a group she has written to unravel ancestral patterns in her marriage that have bled through from her grandparents, Another poem in this sequence was shortlisted for the Bridport prize, which was exciting.