kathleen is thinking of moving
when i was in gore it was sunny says
kathleen considering moving
there’s a good art gallery there
i could go home, all my cousins
say: family
it’s harder moving when you’re older kathleen says
her hair is cut a little shorter
she calls it ‘the web’
morven
now i am cleaning up
my soap business is thriving
i sold four cakes of soap an
older woman asked me
(her hair like baking powder)
Do you do liquid soap it’s better for my
skin Now i am cleaning up
i said
It’s better that way and I
put my hand reassuringly on her shoulder
dream-catchers
there is a sign at a shop in town which reads
“sorry, i’m not a millionaire,
all breakage must be paid for”
below dreamcatchers and above cat ceramics and i read it every day
when i walk home at night at night
there is not a lot going on the owner of the shop is called paula.
what if one day paula was a millionaire would the sign read: “hooray i am now a millionaire, all breakage is OK”
or “i am a millionaire, but please keep breakage to a minimum
it makes me sad and
i forgot where i put the brush and shovel”
Eden Bradfield is a New Zealand poet, chef, & musician based in Oamaru in the South Island, Te Waipounamu.
