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Little sister

A poem by Alex Corrin-Tachibana

Alex Corrin-Tachibana by Alex Corrin-Tachibana
08-11-2021 12:42 - Updated on 17-07-2022 19:45
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Little sister

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When will she wear out 
like Little Ted? I asked
but Little Sister
wasn’t going anywhere.
Little Sister
was long in the making.
In fact, Mother wouldn’t have waited 
so long for Little Sister
if having me hadn’t ‘nearly killed’ her.
Little Sister looked like
a tadpole in the bath,
had a rich godmother 
who gave her porcelain dolls,
and looked like one, 
with long lashes and arched brows.
Mother paid for a portrait photograph
to be taken with Little Sister
while I was at school.
She didn’t like my frown.
She said if the wind blew
I would ‘stay that way’ 
and ‘if looks could kill’…

Alex Corrin-Tachibana
This poem was originally published in Artemis in 2020.
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Alex Corrin-Tachibana

Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana is a Newcastle-based poet who lived in Shizuoka, Japan, for 10 years. She holds an MA in Japanese Language and Contemporary Society, from Sheffield University, and an MA in Writing Poetry, from Newcastle University. This year she was shortlisted for the 2020 Fish Publishing Prize and was commended in the Winchester Poetry Prize, and in the Cheltenham-based Buzzwords competition. Her most recent work is published or forthcoming in Tears in the Fence, Orbis, Obsessed with Pipework, Fenland Poetry Journal, and Artemis. She writes poetry pamphlet reviews for Happenstance Press.

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