I Can’t Wait

I can’t wait

for sunken continents to rise renewed

- where coral crests above the wave’s break -

the benthic rezoned as the dryland’s new empire

and what an empire we’ll have here!

The gulls perched on old bones, the old bones heaped skyward

the old sky now the deepest blue to be seen.

I want new colours!

Let me dress how a cuttlefish dreams… 

Fergus Nm is an artist and reader living in Newtown, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, with his partner and a fluctuating number of pet snails. He runs the small press Venomous Feathers which sporadically publishes retinal delights from Aotearoa and abroad. His literary tastes tend towards excess and maximalism, as does his visual art.