POMĪAHIAS & HIS LOVER’S GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT
for Sam Duckor-Jones
Pomīahias is in the garage molding
little men into being
fingers slick with clay
drying gradual into dust
the light casts shadows to move
the roller door is open to let the air in
he admires all the fishing rods
his lover has hung from the wall
Maui has caught some big ones
in his day
he sits his tiny figure up on the shelf
with the others
he can see it on their faces
(scrunched fingernail detailing)
they all want something
he isn’t sure he’s allowed to give
could he be as brave to draw a world
over the horizon against its will?
©essa may ranapiri
essa may ranapiri (takatāpui; they/them/ theirs) is a poet from Kirikiriroa. They have words in Mayhem, Poetry NZ, Brief, Starling, THEM and POETRY Magazine, and their debut collection RANSACK will be published by Victoria University Press in 2019.
nice poem essa from one classmate to another!
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