Puriri

 

A puriri moth’s wing
lies light in my hand

my breath can lift it ―

light as this torn wing
we lie on love’s breath.

from Against the Softness of Woman (Caveman Press, 1976), © Jan Kemp 1976, used by permission of the author.

Jan Kemp was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, in 1949. She was the sole woman anthologized in The Young New Zealand Poets (1973), and in ...
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