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A collection of poems
$NZ 20.00
New Bread after Roque Dalton
the poem is new bread new voice of blood, transfused transforming
by faith in what sustains the otherwise impossible
El Salvador, 2005 *** For My Brother
After so many distances solitudes and silences after so many journeys deaths, losses
After so many sojourns seas, shores of exile forgone farewells and nil responses
I remove myself from familiar ground to where I’m rootless with no past nor name
that I may speak to you, truly, kindly from an inner state which resonates
with the midnight cooing of a morepork patient, timeless calling from the deep
*** Sometimes
Sometimes it’s good to stop thinking it’s good to stop talking it’s good to stop acting it’s good to stop playing
Sometimes it’s good to stop doing it’s good to stop wooing it’s good to stop cringing it’s good to stop whinging
Sometimes it’s good to stop
and watch the leaves outside the window gently waving in the wind
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