yes, another love poem
| you should fall in love | because Everest has been climbed |
| because Alexandria has been found | |
| because the moon has been walked on | |
| you should fall in love | because the sun is warm |
| because rain feels good | |
| because white clouds are floating by | |
| you should fall in love | because chocolate tastes good |
| because sometimes grapes are seedless | |
| because parmesan cheese smells | |
| you should fall in love | because Everest has been climbed |
| because Alexandria has been found | |
| because the moon has been walked on | |
| you should fall in love | because birds have wings |
| because frogs can jump | |
| because dogs chase their own tails | |
| you should fall in love | just because |
| i should follow my own advice | |
First published in a fine line, NZ Poetry Society journal - Featured Poet (2014)
About Paula
Paula Harris lives in Aotearoa/New Zealand, where she writes and sleeps a lot, because that's what depression makes you do. She won the 2018 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize and the 2017 Lilian Ida Smith Award, and was a semi-finalist for the 2020 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize. She was the recipient of a Vermont Studio Center writing residency in 2018.
Her poetry has been published in various journals, including Passages North, Barren, New Ohio Review, SWWIM, Gulf Coast, The Spinoff, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook and Aotearotica. Her essays have been published in The Sun, Passages North, The Spinoff and Headlands: New Stories of Anxiety (Victoria University Press).
She is extremely fond of dark chocolate, shoes and hoarding fabric.