Renee Liang

Renee Liang  got her start in performance poetry in an outback pub in Broken Hill. Since then she has performed at the Friend in Hand in Glebe, Sydney, and is a regular at Poetry Live in Ponsonby, Auckland. She placed as a finalist in her first attempt at a Poetry Slam at the Grey Lynn festival, 2004.

dusk, sculpture symposium

The moon is up early

a fingernail clipping the sky

impregnated by sunset

each night she will swell

floating with increasing heaviness

among bubble bath clouds

Stones become seers

hoods thrown back

to the full beauty of the moon

now terrible in her luminosity

exulting in the chant

of her priests:

the wind rising

sand transformed by magic

into puddles of light

the song mounts

the goddess labours

stretched on her gauzy bed of stars

Clouds hide her modesty

at the ultimate moment

and the cough of gravel

bids us turn away

back to the town of mortals

whose lights beckon below.

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