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Brian Turner was born in 1944. An outdoorsman, a mountaineer, a national representative...
Fish
Fish
The child
asks me
Is it wet
inside a fish
and I say No
and he says
Then what is it
and I say
It’s red and pink
and cool
as a tomb
in the morning
and he says
How do you
know except
when it’s dead
from Beyond (John McIndoe, 1992), © Brian Turner 1992, used by permission of the author. Recording from the Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archives 2004.
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