Brief Bio: Last year Janet Charman's collection 'cold snack', AUP, 2007, won the Montana Poetry Prize. She lives and writes in Auckland.
to speke of wo that is in mariage
my darling
desires
to know me
better
I take her
to meet my mother
who has no reason
to remember
both of them
show the sweetest temper
as they speak
uncomprehendingly each to the other
my wife forgets to pretend and then
pretends to forget
