Jan FitzGerald

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Jan FitzGerald (b.1950) is a long established NZ poet with publication in all the mainstream NZ literary journals including Poetry NZ, NZ Books, Takahe, Broadsheet, Landfall, and overseas in Poetry Australia, The London Magazine, Orbis (UK) , Acumen (UK) and Cinnamon Press (Wales) . She is also a short story writer of various awards and placings. Jan has three poetry books published and works as a full-time artist in Napier, Hawke’s Bay,)

The Best Poem Of Jan FitzGerald

When I Die

When I die

When I die make me a nest,
a hay-bed
in a seaward tree -

let my bones lie
a bundle of white branches
dividing the wind's secrets,

north from northeast.

Let me hear
the name of each wave
returning

understand
the morse tapping
of birds in their shells

see the light
of answering cries
over water.

Let my bones lie
hearing the details
of moonlight

the amplified vastness
of love
& all things

surprising.

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