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Kim Cope Tait

Kim Cope Tait (she/her) has a collection of poems called Shadow Tongue. Kim is currently finishing an English PhD and teaching at the University of Otago. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in SWAMP Magazine, Landfall, Poetry Shelf New Zealand, Two Thirds North, The Spinoff, Axon: Creative Explorations, Calyx, the Cimarron Review, and Poetry Aotearoa.

Heart of God

I can’t write about little girls swept away in flash floods   brown roiling river glutted on the bird boned babies of Christian families left with empty hands   fingers spread so all the coins fall through    I suppose people want to know their stories …

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