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

Bio


Keith Nunes lives in tiny Pahiatua (New Zealand). He won the 2017 Flash Frontier Short Fiction Writing Award, has had poetry, haiku and short fiction published around the globe and has been a Pushcart Prize nominee. His Foto-Poetry digital images have appeared in a number of literary journals. His book of poetry/short fiction, "catching a ride on a paradox", is out there.


Keith Nunes


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Drawing out a likeness

Trying to sketch her
Sedentary maybe
But so many moods
Burst against herlight-travel across her

Line-linear
Lifting-leaning
Erasure of spirals
Curvature
Unnervingly irregular

'Will you just tell me how to capture you'

'Context?' she offers
'Perhaps' I say
'A feral deer eating a hunter
'A thousand dead-ends on a hundred maps
'Sexualizing the unpreventable experience'

'An abstract, then?'