I Am Not Your Eve Peter Repka I started writing poetry in

I started writing poetry in Bulgarian – about railway stations and going away

poets who stand on top of tower blocks and girls who find wings and fly across a landscape of abandoned council estates

dunescapes

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and how the explosion then sees “the monster bite through the metaphor’s back and tear the metaphor to pieces

I Am Not Your Eve Peter Repka I started writing poetry inI Am Not Your Eve is the story of Teha'amana, Tahitian muse and child bride to the painter Paul Gauguin. She shares her thougths as he works on one of his masterpieces, The Spirit of The Dead Keeps Watch, a work so important to Gauguin that it haunts his later self portrait. As Teha'amana tells her story, other voices of the island rise: Hina goddess of the moon, a lizard watching from the eaves, Gauguin's mask of Teha'amana carved from one of the