Pony New Lynn Actually, a whole traveling farm, a portable farm with rats and bunnies, chickens too? It was my sister’s birthday. Baths Unless my memory is playing tricks on me. The rats were white with blazing red eyes. I’m translating myself from a time when I was sure. Sex with strangers The man leading the pony in circles was wearing a cowboy hat. Sunday School There was a big pink cake with purple icing and sprinkles. Of being outside I was too big to ride the pony. By then I was a young woman.“Courtney Sina Meredith”
Author: Courtney Sina Meredith
is the author of Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick & Tail of the Taniwha (both Beatnik Publishing). She has held various international writing residencies including the prestigious Fall Residency at the University of Iowa. She describes her work as an ongoing discussion of contemporary urban life with an underlying Pacific politique.