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Salt

Selina Tusitala Marsh

as if God spilt salt
on his midnight tablecloth

as if Gibran’s Ugly
had flung Beauty’s cloak
across the waters –
its soft light muted
in repentance

as if star by blue star
remembered the loss of each mother
and lit her face for a thousand years

as if matariki
leapt off calendar pages
turning in my veins
down through my fingers
bending to pluck
a purple orchid.


Selina Tusitala Marsh

found at New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre: http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz

Reproduced by kind permission of the author.

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About this poem

This poem, representing Tuvalu, 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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