Keith Nunes
August 12, 2017Keith Nunes (Lake Rotoma) has had works published around the globe, has placed in competitions, been anthologised and is a Pushcart Prize nominee. His book of poetry/short fiction, “catching a ride on a paradox”, is sold by McLeods Booksellers, Rotorua.
My passion for writing poetry and short fiction is intensifying as I’m ageing. If this continues I might just explode.
Keith Nunes
On the border line
we edge around the smudged borders of her personality,
dare not be the ‘immigrant’ who mistimes an entry
we step unarmoured around deftly buried land mines
avoiding the inhuman glare that
turns children into pillars of salted peanuts
in the rooms of avoidance
plans for escape are whispered
and patiently, silently
enacted
until the inflamed has only furniture to burn
Shaky
her amethyst eyes
are decided
her right foot
draped in Italian leather
imperceptibly
reveals
the direction
will she leave the hat?
please leave the hat
the ‘welcome mat’ between us
“thanks?” she says
“for leaving the hat”
her shaking head
always the shaking head
How stripped is my valley
laden cows in the middle distance
boom and echo during a stealth bombing run of a hawk
chasing the last of anything edible
the Book of Genesis-sun beams streams of illustrations of
begetting and bemoaning onto the barren far off mountains
sedimentary rock
penetrates
the crumbling-bone hillsides as though fighting for a view
of their ancestors
used to construct houses
for the scorched-earth herders
the feathered
fly the flag of the fucked-off,
beating against the blanched winds
and milk-fat tide
unable to find the lone tree
that resembles home