Poems
Best New Zealand Poems 2017
Stop/move
A bracelet of light around Auckland
tight speculation that theBUS STOP IS MOVINGseemed slightly odd to the kid.
Moving where?
He thought it’d stopped?He told himself that if
his name was as odd as this
stage direction, bent from a
sober skin and said over and
over, it would sound like
laughter.
Wrecked,
a gasp for air.
Beautiful,like the
sound of
y o u r
mother.Everything. Vanished.It would be a rhapsody of tired
kisses, stitched together by a
promise. It would be a caress of the
universe. It would be a confession,
pushed into a back pocket and
left to the lint.The passion of it had risen fast, a florid tail tacking a light of how it came, and how it left. A transit.(Published originally in the 2017 Spring/Summer Edition of Atlanta Review)
Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand
Poems 2017: Persian bilingual
edition
Ordite Carte (33 for 33) by Vittorio Zago
The musical interludes, Ordite Carte (33 for 33) by Vittorio Zago, were composed for More Favourable Waters (The Cuba Press, 2021) and inspired by Dante Aleghari’s Purgatory cantos. They were recorded on 30 January 2021 at the Auditorium and at the Salone Organo of the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Como.
Jamie Trower’s poem, Io, features as an interlude in this piece.