Lost Relatives
Siobhan Harvey

	Art & Poetry Poetry Price: $19.99 Availability: now Format: 148mm x 210mm, soft cover, 72 pages ISBN: 978-1-877577-11-6 Add this book to your shopping bag

About the Book

Eclipse

A kiss is all it takes
to cast a shadow 
over their courting. 
He takes her, distant other,

by the hand and begins
to dance, to kiss, 
setting in motion
her loss, like a chain reaction.

Four minutes 
of gaping, of finding
an ache unspent,
of time unaccounted for.

They’re not alone.
Faraway as a black hole, 
someone’s watching
this monochrome show.

Like a film, her body
sheets past his, 
both of them whispers 
pleading to move on.

About the Author

Siobhan Harvey is the editor of Words Chosen Carefully: New Zealand Writers in Discussion and Our Own Kind: 100 New Zealand Poems about Animals. Her poetry and prose have appeared in many New Zealand and international magazines and anthologies, and have been broadcast on Radio New Zealand. She was runner-up in the 2008 and 2009 Bernard Gadd Memorial Poetry Prizes. The consulting editor of International Literary Quarterly and poetry editor of Takahe, she was 2009 ARC Writer in Residence at Awhitu Reserve.