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Poem by Alex Corrin-Tachibana

Alex Corrin-Tachibana by Alex Corrin-Tachibana
23-10-2020 14:00 - Updated on 19-04-2022 23:13
in Poetry, World News
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Your slim brown hands
which don’t yet wear a wedding band
use chopsticks
to turn the mackerel
in its criss-crossed silver coat
studded with sea salt.
The oily white flesh
tastes like kipper
only different.
This is Yumigahama
and we’re here to show Sally
the best of Japan.
She and I swim
then listen to you talk
about our far-off foreign faces
bobbing on the waves.
Sally’s like a Fifties movie star, you say,
her blue eyes and boyish hair.
I don’t yet know
that our child will be a boy,
that we’ll call him Ryoma —
Dragon Horse,
and that I’ll adore
his slim brown hands.
Alex Corrin-Tachibana
First published in Tears in the Fence
Autumn 2020
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Alex Corrin-Tachibana

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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