the whitebait are running

 
reclined against
the bank

the copper curve
of your neck gleams

I bob my chin
to your raised arm

keep turning
my mind in water

your waders
grazing my ankles
 

Kirsten Le Harivel

Kirsten Le Harivel is a poet, traveller and youth development worker living on the Kapiti Coast in New Zealand. She has ties to Scotland, England, France and India. Her work has been published in blackmail press and the 4th Floor Literary Journal. She is a member of the Conversations Across Borders Project.

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