Keith Nunes


Road Trip Sequence

Snells Beach

Ngunguru

Kerikeri Rainbow Falls

Anchor Bay, Tāwharanui #1

Anchor Bay, Tāwharanui #2

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At that depth words are not words at all

Singular stranger 
                               Bumping into the darkness
                                                                                Laid out shambolically
                                                        As structure

Inside his tempered casing
A submariner twiddling 
Dials 
          Staying 
                         Under
                                      So he can stay on top of
                                                                                    The depths he needs to function

At the rising 
The gathering 
                             Civilian war games
Words stream 
Like dumping ballast 

Leaving behind him
Taking with him
All the dead bodies   

Keith Nunes (New Zealand) was nominated for Best Small Fictions 2019, the Pushcart Prize and has won the Flash Frontier Short Fiction Award. He’s had poetry, haiku, short fiction, asemic writing and visuals published around the globe.
 
 
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