the hunter wears wolf teeth and
kneels by hospital beds. he
regularly walks where deer play.
he drowns their sons and
packs their mouths with grass.
the Chatham Islands pray for him.
he leaves his boots at the door
of the fish house and collects
tongues from the lace lips
of salmon. he hooks their
song with the deep
pigment of night this is how he
turns the light.
Kerrin P. Sharpe
Kerrin P. Sharpe lives in Christchurch, New Zealand where she is a poet and a teacher of creative writing. She has published in NZ, Australia and England. Her first collection, Three Days in a Wishing Well, has just been published by Victoria University Press.
Some of the poems published in the Anthology previously appeared in Best New Zealand Poems, Takahe, Turbine and Sport and she has a forthcoming poetry selection in Oxford Poets 2013.
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