30 April, 2020: Modi Deng

Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand
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Tomorrow will be the same but not as this is 

             (to a painting by Colin McCahon, held in Te Puna Waiwhetū)  
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tomorrow I will dream,
spend hours on one gleam of sky and its sound

melt away the Otago night the 
biscuity dark of its foreground

lay myself on a slate body of water
cold and curved, hollow and tailbone

all and while and remembering. 

but before then I will
mix myself like so 

smaller than a 
leaf spine / smaller than space between

floorboards / smaller than sand
in black dripping

down into the linen of every day. and wait for a beam
to send me, onwards


Modi is a pianist who loves to write. She studied piano and English at Auckland University and is preparing to further her studies in London.