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Photo Credit: James O'Neill

Photo Credit: James O'Neill

Nights Alive

May 20, 2018

By Chris Tse

Time never caught up with us, and we never fell in with time.

We slip

through the neon-lit bones of our city only to find ourselves

repeating the nights

and weekends that have gone before. It’s becoming

harder to stay

amazed by the things we’ve always craved, but we still

go along

with each beat like our lives depend on it. Nights alive

mean something is real.

It means bags of greasy fries crusted with chicken salt

that always end up seasoning our clothes.

It means running into the friends we didn’t invite

in clubs groaning with bodies.

It means excuses, screaming matches, promises

to be kinder

and stories we’ll wash from our hair and scrape

from our soles.

Did it ever matter who told the story or who took

the picture in the first place?

Once either gets out, it’s in the hands of the restless few

who might do something with it.

And nothing is ever done. We wait for the air in this place

to swallow us—names, habits, moods—

until it’s unbearable to even think about. There’s nothing

better—so they say.

By James O'Neill
By James O'Neill
Photo by Sonia Sly (1 of 1).jpg
 Photography by James O’Neill  Styling by Sonia Sly  HMU by Michele Perry
 Photography by James O’Neill   Styling by Sonia Sly  HMU by Michele Perry

 

Maisie wears Dylan McCutcheon-Peat pinstripe vest and matching pant/ Kowtow Choreography jumper/ Tia Feng boots.

Miron @Kirsty Bunny Management wears Tia Feng skirt and matching bloomers / Gestutz sweatshirt / Kowtow ribbed top / Xoe Hall custom jacket / Dr Martens Boots - borrowed / vintage transistor radios worn as bangles.

 

Team - Photography: James O'Neill / Styling and creative direction: Sonia Sly / Hair and makeup: Michele Perry / Backstage assistance: Saba Girmay and Bex McGill.

Special thanks: John Roberts, James Gilberd, J&M Takeaways, and Chris Tse.


Chris Tse, photo by Rebecca McMillan

Chris Tse, photo by Rebecca McMillan

Nights Alive was written by Chris Tse who is a poet and occasional food blogger based in Wellington. He's the author of two poetry collections published by Auckland University Press: How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes (finalist at the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and winner of the Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry) and HE'S SO MASC, which was launched at Writers and Readers Festival in March.

 

 

 

 

In Style Stories, Editorial, Culture Tags Chris Tse, poetry, NZ poet, fashion editorial, Miron Girmay, Maisie de Raad, Kirst', James O'Neill photography, Michele Perry makeup, Sonia Sly, stylist, styling, fashion photography, Wellington, New Zealand, emerging designer, emerging designers, Dylan McCutcheon-Peat, Tia Feng
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