Bio
Rebecca Ball is a poetry and fiction writer from Ōtautahi Christchurch. She has contributed to a range of journals including Landfall, London Grip, Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, Turbine | Kapohau, Mayhem, Flash Frontier and takahē, as well as special anthologies like No Other Place to Stand: An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand (AUP) and More than a roof: Housing, in poems and prose (Landing Press).
Rebecca Ball
ceremonies carry us
we grind rituals
out of coffee beans
the opening of windows
the suck of bread on bench
we pull hymns
from fractal ponga leaves
Powelliphanta shells
the fivefold symmetry
of sea urchins
breads rise
windows close
we plant pews
towards the sun
sing to shoots that curl
from coffee grounds