Eartha Davis



Tell Me Like You Mean It 8

When commissioning for this edition of Tell Me Like You Mean It, I gave one prompt to contributors: “Go bonkers! (If you want! So fine if not!)”

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kaha, tamawahine / tipuna wahine

The afternoon plays with promises stung lonelinesses straddling each other cooking t i m e sipping grain from yesterday’s wallpaper & they say kindness is corrugated & they say blue horses babble like consonants & they say palm is the …

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tha an speur a’ seinn

aroha blooms in wingtaps of rain (water forgives her sudden vertigo) the whole world croaks kindness, acacia says the whole world casts off her tangled net to dream… a touch that ladles the loss from lungs a touch that sheds …

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papatūānuku

Now, I worship an empress of solitude / I do not know how to bloat slow / feather like bird-stunned truths / river says we are stories furred with pulse / dreaming cinders / twinned geographies of breathing hinterlands / …

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