Bio
Lincoln Jaques is a Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland based writer. His poetry, fiction, travel essays and book reviews have appeared in collections in New Zealand and internationally, including Landfall, Live Encounters, Shot Glass Journal, The Spinoff Friday Poem, Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, Anti-Heroin Chic, Blackmail Press, Mayhem and Takahē. He was shortlisted for the 2023 inaugural I Te Kokoru At The Bay hybrid manuscript awards and has been selected for the 2025 International Best Small Fictions anthology from Alternating Current Press.
Lincoln Jaques
Encounter
Think of Edward Hopper
the entire city
now separated
by his brushstrokes.
A figure stares up the alley;
another, unnoticed and silently
suffocated by shadows and motion,
as if an apparition, steps almost
into floodlight but stops short.
Nighthawks know light is not for the dead.