LUCY JESSEP
ERAWAN SHRINE
her face
he watches
is disintegrating
cars navigate
into ash
around mangled scooters
her eyes
his hands
are black
steel wool
like the slick pavement
he scrubs her clean
her skin
news reporters
falls like petals
broadcast
from the golden shower tree
from channel one to one hundred
Lucy Jessep is thirteen years old, from Christchurch, and has written poetry and prose from a young age. She has been published in the New Zealand Poetry Society anthology, NZ Post Submerged, Poems4Peace Anthology 2014 and the Young Poets Society website.