Bio
Jeni Curtis is a Christchurch writer who has had short stories and poetry published in various publications including takahē, NZPS anthologies 2014 to 2018, JAAM, Atlanta Review, The London Grip, and the Poetry NZ Yearbook. She is a graduate of the Hagley Writers Institute, Christchurch (2011-2012). In 2016 she received a mentorship from the New Zealand Society of Authors to put together a collection of poems. She is secretary of the Canterbury Poets Collective, and chair of the takahē trust. She is also co-editor of poetry for takahē, and editor of the Christchurch Dickens Fellowship magazine Dickens Down Under.
Jeni Curtis
Eroica
no sound at all
the blackbirds trill in springtime
no sound at all
cicadas rasp in autumn
no sound at all
the leaves rustle as they fall
but in the head
the susurration of the heart
the music grows
swells to a crescendo
inside the head,
a whole orchestra
the oboe's plaintive lament
cellos sob in chorus
then through the darkness
a single note