Tru Paraha
New Zealand

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Karakia Precari - Penny Howard 2016
Tru Paraha is an Auckland-based artist working across live art, experimental choreography and performance. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Auckland. Previous texts appear in Blackmail Press, Puna Wai Korero, and Poetry NZ.







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tribute #1




girl
       nonchalant
      blue-dark
     coat
girl
        reach
    steel
girl
          arms
      vast
                            pressing.
     seems,
            trees
         
                 heard          
         swooped
  branch
      owl-like

  grave
   lover
         leaned
    moonrise
          eyes:
                  very
            velvet
      
  hooted.  
         scraped
  each
        helpless
                one-ribbed
  girl
       her
                  dark-edged
                            storms.





anon


sh is Hinemoa

how    hr limbs thrashed
across a Silurian otion
how hr   hips rocked open
gourds drenchd
in salt   primordial thurst


when    sh tremors 
criesout    to the gods
when sh    clenches down on
yew without warning
without oxygin   the lake
streaming from  the pitz
of    hr eyes


hold    hold hr like  a
man drowning