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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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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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Teweiariki Teaero

Teweiariki Teaero was born on Nikunau Island in Kiribati. He studied in Victoria, Australia and received his MA in Education from the University of South Pacific, where he now teaches. Some of his research explores ways in which indigenous...
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