Bio
Jeni Curtis is a Christchurch writer who has had short stories and poetry published in various publications including takahē, NZPS anthologies 2014 to 2018, JAAM, Atlanta Review, The London Grip, and the Poetry NZ Yearbook. She is a graduate of the Hagley Writers Institute, Christchurch (2011-2012). In 2016 she received a mentorship from the New Zealand Society of Authors to put together a collection of poems. She is secretary of the Canterbury Poets Collective, and chair of the takahē trust. She is also co-editor of poetry for takahē, and editor of the Christchurch Dickens Fellowship magazine Dickens Down Under.
Jeni Curtis
flying camel
trust lies in the skate edge
close to the ice the faint
trace of the circle the straight
line with feathers of white
subliminal radiant
You will not drop me you say
our arms meet in symmetry
our turns synchronous I fly
at your shoulders air
whistles and thrills my face
trust lies in the skate edge
when I fall you fall ice
is a slippery medium
it jars it cracks the pull
of the depths below