__where I lie beside
____page after page of the first 900
______secrets

__calligraphed guardians
____of bhuddas and spirits
______evidence
____of anthropological
__walls cemented
____with cast down eyes
______veils in changing rooms
__and the harangue of pachinko

__more permeable
________than your mist



...



ahhh, lucky, they say -
you must have to have black hair
to play skillfully


...



will this last this last
yellow ginko leaves weekend
or are the seeds sown

______ looking through alice
______ there are yellow butterflies
______ dying wonderland


if you have to ask
how much you have not enough
for sale in good faith

Liz Forbes



Liz Forbes has trailed her husband as he is seconded by his multinational employer. She would like to say that throughout she has been calm and accepting, but she will say that her poetic nature has always shown through. She has three children and is presently living in base camp on the east coast of Scotland, still resolved to become multi-lingual, an authority on English literature, a noted gardener and to reduce her ironing pile. In the past fifteen years she has lived for three years in each of New Zealand, the U.S.A and England, and for a year and a bit in Japan and over four in Scotland.