Let’s Not

Let’s not talk about the thing

that makes you sad, He said.

As if it were some very grey creature.

Some pet or other

that had escaped

in the time it took me

to wrap my legs around his legs.

Ish Doney

Ish Doney is a writer and photographic artist. Her work has appeared in the New Zealand Poetry Society Anthology 2008 and Eat Your Words: Wellington Cafe Poems 2012, among other publications. She is in the process of leaving Wellington, but until such time can be found biking around in varying levels in impractical cycling attire.