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

Bio


Jo-Ella Sarich lives in Petone, New Zealand and has practised as a lawyer for a number of years, recently returning to poetry after a long hiatus. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Verse News, Quarterly Review, Poets Reading the News, The Galway Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Blackmail Press, takahē magazine and the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017.


Jo-Ella Sarich


 

Mainland (a climate change poem)

I expect I'll be seeing more of you, your sea lips
bright with the taste of land. The sleeves
of my jacket are still wet from yesterday, as I
step outside into today's downpour. Your moat is

facile, you know, like the sharks in it. Like the plank
of myself I lay across the denial sinkhole. Look,
the Rest of Them are further away today
than they were yesterday. Yesterday it was only the cross-
sectional rub of our fingertips and

a thin sandspit that held us connected.