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Erica Stretton

Erica is a librarian and mother-of-three who has worked in New Zealand and the UK and is now settled in Ellerslie, Auckland. In between dealing with vomiting bugs, and writing a steady stream of amusing anecdotes about her children online, she has been taking undergraduate writing papers at the University of Auckland over the last year and is hoping to return to librarianship in 2019.

Three poems © Erica Stretton2017 SpringT3POETS

Three poems

On Breathing   There is no air in me, she says her flushed cheeks turned away no air for words the night presses in on us   I overdose her ignore the prescription label when she             stops talking I run a red light   no…
Erica Stretton
November 19, 2017