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From: Vol.12 N.01 – The Braided Gift

sìn air fighe

by Eartha Davis
the river   is ruffled   with    eyesalt        sorrow    pestled   into  sun 
solitude sequins water braids with buds
( nectar sleeping inside loneliness )
thaws Heart’s fossilised soundtrack
with insurrections of l i g h t

look: the river riots against her winding
the river swaddles the spirit of ocean
e s t u a r y
blows the bracken from kingfisher

look: the river unravels reasons snagged stories
silty palace
pulse prancing towards shore

with
river, dreamers paint hemispheres
hatch horizons
a language of arms feet flesh
forever nestling with n o w
spraying up from s e a

look: all lives waltz with wind
all lives braid with brevity
brief
flesh

look: twinned birds pirouette in the gloaming
sow tides with song

(to begin & end again)
(to begin & end again)

(to begin . . .)
Published: November 2025
Eartha Davis

is a woman of Ngāpuhi and Celtic heritage living on Wurundjeri land. She is the winner of the AAWP/Express Media Sudden Writing Prize and a 2025 Varuna Residency Fellow. Her debut poetry collection, màthair beinn, is out now with Vagabond Press. Instagram: @eartha_davis_

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