Review Short: Selina Tusitala Marsh’s Tightrope

Paul Magee

Review Short: Selina Tusitala Marsh’s Tightrope

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I like the way a backyard door opens ‘parting sooty / veils of flies,’ in the first poem of Selina Tusitala Marsh’s Tightrope. Outside are Max V, Lima and Ono (‘knotted fur, nettling bones / fat eyes, fat hunger’), and they have found a dead dog on the road:
sniffed out its decayed meat 
dragged it home 
and in pecking order 
began to eat

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-3
Number of pages	3
Journal	Cordite Poetry Review
Publication status	Published - 26 Jun 2018

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