Balaena Bay, 7.15 am

pink juice spreads in streaks
pomegranate sky

the sea is inky–
indigo
velvety cold

Maddie, Lou and Poppy stride ahead
waist deep
on a Wednesday

Ella Booray

Ella Borrie is is a Te Whanganui-a-Tara based poet from Otago. Her writing appears in Mimicry, Swamp, Starling, Stasis Journal, Landfall and Turbine | Kapohau. She is the winner of the 2023 Biggs Family Prize in Poetry.