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The Necessity of Failure
Why this obsession with success,
which gives so brief a glow?
Fading already: won; done it;
past. Afterwards, what then? What next?
With failure, there’s so much
more to savour, so much more to feel.
Like a loose tooth, you can jiggle
it any time you like;
the true fr...
& verily the bishop saw an absence
(response to Bishop Vercoe’s statement of ‘looking forward to a world without gays’)
I take my science
leaf through
memory
will-o’-the-wisp moments
can be caught
embedded
deep into the brain
a place where even
torture
cannot hook
yank you o...
Liz Mortonius at Poetry Live.
Elizabeth Morton is a poet, yarn teller, and researcher of the noggin. Her writing has been published in the likes of Landfall, Takahē, Poetry Aotearoa, and also in overseas j...