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Topher Shields

Topher Shields is a poet from Aotearoa New Zealand. His work explores the human condition through inheritance and the small acts by which people come to know one another. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Washington Square Review, Puerto del Sol, MANTIS, The Shore, Hawai’i Pacific Review, McNeese Review, Santa Clara Review, DIALOGIST, New Zealand Poetry Society, and The Esthetic Apostle.

The Shape of What Entered

tahi | Feijoas in the Off-Season rua | Transit Sequence toru | Soil Report — tahi | Feijoas in the Off-Season My mormor’s hands still smell of kerosene and feijoas left too long in the washhouse dark. She opens one …

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The Cracked Vase

The cracked vase humming its one note to the dust— te hā slips through its ribs, the breath of what was held still moves. Somewhere, a word breaks open: awa, remembered by water, reeds recall the pulse of hands that …

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