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Bonefish

Teweiariki Teaero

I cast
Blindly
Snap!
Aue!
Te ikari!
Bonefish
It bites
It tugs
Then runs
Really runs
A silver bullet
Running
Pulling
Zigzagging
Everywhere
Hooked
On my line
Ai aue!

Teweiariki Teaero

from On Eitei’s Wings (Suva: Pacific Writing Forum, 2000)

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fishing Kiribati

About this poem

This poem, representing Kiribati, is part of The Written World – our collaboration with BBC radio to broadcast a poem from every single nation competing in London 2012.

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