Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: ‘Into the Light’ by Michael Harlow

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Into the Light for Laura Garavaglia, Como

Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: ‘Into the Light’ by Michael Harlow | NZ Poetry Shelf

We walk into the light
inside the poem we have become,
inside the house of poetry.
Your words flying to each other
with astonishing ease,
a constellation in the world-sky,
the moon a perfect accomplice.

Michael Harlow

Michael Harlow has written 14 books of poetry, and was awarded the prestigious Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement for Poetry in 2018. In 2014 he was awarded the Lauris Edmond Memorial Prize for distinguished Contribution to New Zealand Poetry. He was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship to France in 1987. He lives and works in Central Otago as a writer, editor, and Jungian Therapist.