Echidna by essa may ramipiri

Author:essa may ramipiri
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Published: 2022-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

ii.

they are selling parcels of Ureia’s flesh

twenty-five dollars a pound

each pound a punch

in the stomach

she goes to them lying still in the moana

and asks to hold them

Ureia nods weakly

she runs her fingers along

the taniwha’s teeth

thinking about games of tag

thinking of games without

the same repercussions as this

the shell jagged

softened

runs her fingers over the barnacles that still cling

around the holes they put in Ureia’s flesh

the great big cuts

still gushing bloody into the water

Echidna can feel the pain

know its bite in her own serpent nature

long calls to the heavens

that stretch

Ureia to sleep

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