Our Mother IOur Mother Is In Love - Karlo Mila

Our Mother IOur Mother Is In Love
- Karlo Mila

You are so busy giving him the best of you
we are left with the scraps
fry up, boil up, bubble and squeak
we are throwing you to the birds

you are a partner now
a part of someone
all we have
are your lukewarm leftovers
we are throwing you to the birds

we are feeding you to the cat




From Dream Fish Floating
http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/pasifika/mila2.asp

Karlo Mila is of Tongan, Palangi and Samoan descent. She was born in Rotorua, grew up in Palmerston North and now lives and works in Auckland. She has had poetry published in Whetu Moana, Best New Zealand Poems 2003, Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of Fusion Poetry, the Listener and Coffee and Coconuts. Karlo performs live poetry regularly.

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