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By Miller, Alice
The poems during this outstanding full-length assortment ask you to strength your self past your personal obstacles. they're curious, stressed, and impressive; they marry lyrical tune and complex metaphor as they look for different human voices past the rumblings of the apocalypse and the stubbornness of delusion. From naked battlefields to crisp Antarctica to the gates of Troy, from rewritten heritage to like tale, those poems ask for whatever extra from the area than simply driving until eventually the spoke breaks. A poet for whom a method is straightforward yet an effective way is worse, Miller strains a course that leads past our limits to the place we set the sky on silent, the place we’re braver than technological know-how, and the place we strive to unglimpse what we’ve misplaced
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In this summer of constant morning, we are braver than science. * 22 Out on the ice, we take eight red flags, and light every volcano for miles. Still the red flags flapping and licking. This is what we used to call a fairy tale. Inside, we are promised, nothing will grow. 23 WET The lakes were incapable of being owned. They turned wild. Their phones rang noon, night, lines curled round and lingering off bright cliff-faces. And the lakes, they kissed those faces; they dangled their voices off precipices.
When we dance I understand an orbit’s pull and circle. Ours is a life worth losing; let’s unlace it from its post and see what creature it becomes. I fear our brains’ geology: their strike-slip faults; their symmetry. But when driving an island to see you, the roads open the earth. And I want to know no other. 51 Thank you to the editors of the following magazines, journals and anthologies for publishing versions of these poems: Best New Zealand Poems, Better magazine, Boston Review, Hue & Cry, The Iowa Review, Landfall, the New Zealand Listener, Microfilme, Narrative Magazine, Poetry Salzburg Review, Seneca Review, Shearsman magazine, Sport, The Wolf, Zoland Poetry, Eastbourne (Makaro Press, 2013) and The Poet’s Quest for God (Eyewear Publishing, forthcoming).
49 MĀHINA BAY Sun tugs at the waves around the raft that’s roped to the ocean floor, and watched by a boat so long on the sand it’s grown an eye, a brow to survey the bay’s round mouth, its mornings stuttered with gulls (Māhina’s an old word for moon and days here do not give way they lean into night) In the pineforest, we hid all the years we thought we had to spare (our lives to come) but when we returned, with most days lost, we couldn’t dig up what we’d buried. We bruised our eyesight counting lights strung all the way to the city.