"Plastic skin

Big mouth

The other day this lady laughed when I told her where my fibres come from

But I weave, but I weave, but I weave" 

Tusitala is the debut poetry collection from Danielle Kionasina Dilys Thomson. It was written for "the mothers who whispered wisdom into my ears, aunties who slipped twenty-dollar notes into my hands and sisters who cackled with me into the night. These poems are an archive of the lives we have lived together. They are eternal- like us."