The Friday poem: ‘Time’, by Jenny Bornholdt
Poetry for the soul
New verse by Wellington writer Jenny Bornholdt
Time
We woke
to spring nuzzling at
the window.
Winter’s passed, like
last night’s hail
in the gin.
Frozen puddle
in the freezer
a reminder;
like our son’s
placenta, still there
after eleven years—
us frozen
by indecision,
which tree
and where?
Sons grown to men.
One sister blown
away, two
here to stay.
Time passes quickly
in this bed,
the child said.
The newly published Selected Poems (Victoria University Press, $40) by Jenny Bornholdt is available at Unity Books.
Jenny Bornholdt
Jenny Bornholdt is a New Zealand poet. Her most recent poetry collection is Lost and Somewhere Else (2019). She is the author of many collections, including The Rocky Shore (Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry, 2009) and Selected Poems (2016), and editor of several notable anthologies, including Short Poems of New Zealand (2018).
