When I imagine my mother’s body, spectral
questions float: how the cage
of bone protects the heart, how she sounded
near death once or if bird cried
a song near the river.  I imagine it like gel
in a body of water, a jellyfish in the sea,
a gasping squid.

                      If I could touch the body,
I would go for the neck
where air meets air, despair swapped for light
flashes, cusps of cut lavender,
cups of the silkworms you may have loved,
the new

The University of South Pacific is hosting a conference on creativity and climate change. Suva, Fiji. 13 - 17 September 2010.

“The conference will bring together writers, artists and environmental activists in providing an alternative culture of determination of responses to issues like climate change.”

They invite academics, writers and artists to attend.

For more information: http://www.usp.ac.fj/index.php?id=9020