Amber Esau is a NZ-born Samoan/Maori/Irish Poet studying under Robert Sullivan in the Creative Writing programme at M.I.T. She is from the village of Manase in Savaii, Samoa on her Fathers’ side and of Nga Puhi and Kai Tahu descent as well as Galway Irish descent on her Mothers’ side. She has been published in the Maori literary journal Ora Nui.
Sense
Thoughts stretched like powerlines
across the night sky. In a tide
of separation then togetherness
in vicious repetition why
do some memories fade amongst
the sparkling constellations?
Minds may falter but bodies always
tingling goosebumps from the hands
of an Ocean wind
Mango juices spilling from hungry
lips tongues mouths fingers
the soft spoon after
a hard fuck
bodies remember
