Cameron McCausland-Taylor
Feast your karus
all eyes on me like
Britney said, an entertainer
without
trying, performance
art seeps out of
me just through
my pure existence:
thick thighs spread across
every surface
like butter piled
on slices of rēwana bread, tits
sag towards the
whenua with no shame, puku
which the people hate but
has felt more
kihi than their lips: mana mōmona
lives through
me
Cameron McCausland-Taylor (Ngāti Awa, Ngāpuhi, Te Arawa, Waitaha) is a Pōneke-based tauira. She’s (finally) in her last year of a creative writing degree at Massey University. Her background is in te ao Māori-based journalism for both Massive Magazine and The Whakatāne Beacon.