How can Brian -
the street bully -
be this delicate giant?
Eleven-year-old Tumema
peered through the slits
of the wooden slats
under Brian's house.
The same thick fingers
that dragged her by the hair
across the school field
nimbly raised a china cup
to the porcelain doll's
love-heart lips.
Published in 'Blackmail Press' - March 2017
NZ Best Poems 2017
https://www.bestnewzealandpoems.org.nz/2017-contents/
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