Elizabeth Smither

Elizabeth Smither has published 18 collections of poetry, five novels and five short story collections. A new collection of poems, Night Horse, will be published by Auckland University Press in 2017.

April 6, 2017 Fiction

The House of Skin

Elizabeth Smither

I know I shall miss the scratching. My middle right-hand finger, its nail clipped as close as a surgeon’s, furrowing the skin on my shoulder.