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To a sister

Charlotte Trevella

Charlotte Trevella was the winner of the best poem in the NZ Post National Secondary Schools poetry awards in 2009.

The Rangi Ruru student has is also about to publish her first book of poems.

By Charlotte Trevella

Our cat caught

an owl and brought

it to our doorstep: a

contorted parcel

of tendon and flight,

what a gift

it was, the hollow

scaffolding of wings

and the blood;

urgent viscous red.

*

There are reminders:

the tessellation of our

hands, bees

stealing sweetness

from clover to feed their

pale, squirming larvae,

the dresses

hanging in our wardrobes:

hand wash dry in shade

bright colours may fade over time.

*

You are thirteen years

old and

the light shines

through you, a

stained glass window

of clavicle and

brightness as you place

a bird

in the waiting

earth, above you,

the macrocarpas

swallowing the

syrupy evening of

a hot and

helpless day.

August 2009