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

Bio


Suzanne Herschell lives in the harbour side community of Eastbourne across from Wellington, New Zealand. A former teacher of accelerate students and mother of four, Suzanne is a poet, an award winning NZ artist, curator at the NZ Academy of Fine Arts, and a selector and judge of national exhibitions. Her poems have been published in Meniscus (Australia), NZ Poetry Society - A Fine Line, Blackmail Press, Shot Glass Journal, Fib Review (USA), The Ghazal Page, various Anthologies and National Poetry Day selections in NZ & US, and chosen for Volume 12 of Katherine Mansfield Studies, to be published by Edinburgh University Press.


Suzanne Herschell


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Singing Like A Whale

disguised he joins the outliers of nature
slipping through waves & spume
stroking the ocean flesh
a diminishing speck swallowed by currents
reconfigured tail & fin slicing the surface sea
of an unfathomable world
so       humpback whales dance
soar & plummet in a melody of movement
each to each
& sing    repeating one another's tunes
a complexity ever more surreal
their haunting sound echoes through depths
threatened by plastic man