Hera Lindsay Bird

thumb|alt=Hera Lindsay Bird|I am dumbfounded that anyone can function at all Hera Lindsay Bird (born 31 December 1987) is a New Zealand poet. Quotes I want to take you to the river that runs behind my house and show you where the dark water vanishes between the rocks but I can’t because nothing runs behind my house not even a lonely commercial highway. I want to stand with you on the edge of a lonely commercial highway waiting for the jumper cables that will restart this engine and take us somewhere far beyond the confines of this poem "If you are an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh", Best New Zealand Poems, 2016 There is such a narrow window For happiness in this life And if the past is anything to go by Everything is about to go slowly but inevitably wrong In a non-confrontational but ultimately disappointing way Often I look at the world And I am dumbfounded that anyone can function at all Given the kinds of violence that So many people have inherited from the past It’s like falling in love for the first time for the last time "Is Hera Lindsay Bird a flash in the pan?", NZ Poetry Shelf (2016) The past is a bad invention that keeps on happening: And it hurts to think about, like an unpaid bill. It's the wind dragging the desert backwards at night & it burns you, like a pastel whip. Hera Lindsay Bird Keats is dead so fuck me from behind Slowly and with carnal purpose Some black midwinter afternoon "‘Keats is Dead so Fuck Me From Behind’ by Hera Lindsay Bird", The Spinoff (July 11 2016) External links Category: living people Category:Women authors from New Zealand Category:Poets from New Zealand Category:1987 births Category:Women born in the 1980s