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"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

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Madeleine is a queer, Jewish animal rights activist and educator based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She is interested in bodily autonomy and relationships. Her writing has been published in Starling, Violet Rising Zine, Quick Brown Fox, and Center for New Americans' 30 Poems in November, and is forthcoming in Overcommunicate. Madeleine believes self care is an essential part of responsible activism. She would love for you to think of one small, kind, deliberate thing you could do to empower or help yourself right now and do it immediately.


Madeleine Lifsey


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Sand Fly Bay

tumble-squish down the massive dunes,
surrounded by seagreen mountains,
to the beach, where the sea lions lounge
in the eye of the sunstorm

they flop and lug themselves around so awkwardly on land,
flippers schlop-clop-blonking pulling themselves along
like a couple of rusty, muddy, Land Rovers each lost a wheel,
'til they hit

the water and glide as gracefully and casually
as Balanchine's Sugar Plum Fairy, or as how
you mentioned we were over because
she was "the one," after all