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Janis Freegard

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January 16, 1963 in South Shields, The United Kingdom

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Janis Freegard was born in the UK, spent some of her childhood in South Africa and Australia, and has lived in New Zealand most of her life.

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Tuesday Poem – Paekakariki

Paekakariki

In the garden of cats

the deserted lover

learns to purr again

& threads the sun around her neck

in a garland of golden oyster shells.

Violets grow quietly

dragonflies come to call

she smells lavender

listens to the sea.

Inside her shut shell

the deserted lover makes pearls

from the gritty bits.

Thinks: If I were a cat

I’d live off parakeets

& keep my love.

This is an old poem I wrote year...

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Average rating: 4.23 · 22 ratings · 6 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Kingdom Animalia: The Escapades of Linnaeus 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	AUP New Poets 3 by Janis Freegard (Goodreads Author), Katherine Liddy, Reihana Robinson 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	Tales for Canterbury: Survival, Hope, Future by J.C. Hart (Goodreads Author) (editor), Anna Caro (Goodreads Author) (editor), Simon Petrie (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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