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
each night she drives through the mountain
feels the pull of Whakaraupō the gentle push of
waves against post-its and photocopies these
city things left in her wake as the road flows
to the sea curves left at the roundabout left
again carries her up up to the ashgrey sky
as she parks tūī calls a karanga clouds hold
the hills water settles like a silk scarf in a bowl