JAMIE TROWER

Stop/move

A bracelet of light around Auckland
tight speculation that the

BUS STOP IS MOVING

seemed slightly odd to the kid.
Moving where?
He thought it’d stopped?

He told himself that if
his name was as odd as this
stage direction, bent from a
sober skin and said over and
over, it would sound like
laughter.
Wrecked,
a gasp for air.
Beautiful,

like the
sound of
y o u r
mother.

Everything.
Vanished.

It would be a rhapsody of tired
kisses, stitched together by a
promise.
It would be a caress of the
universe.
It would be a confession,
pushed into a back pocket and
left to the lint.

The passion of it had risen fast, a florid tail tacking a light of how it came,
and how it left. A transit.

Jamie Trower was born in Brighton, England, and immigrated to New Zealand in 1995 with his family. An Auckland-based poet and actor, Trower finds comfort in performing both on the page and on the stage, and studied English and Drama at the University of Auckland. He released his first body of work, Anatomy, in 2015 with Mākaro Press. He works for M2 magazine as a writer and scribbles together poetry in his spare time about life, death and everything in between. Jamie has published poems in Atlanta Review and Poetry NZ.

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