Published in Overland Issue 219 Winter 2015 · Uncategorized Fruit bowl Tulia Thompson Here, in the first world in the North, We buy a fruit bowl woven out of cane for CAD$8.00 at a fair trade store I imagine it full of mangoes, oranges and bananas poised on the table still life evoking plentitude. You carry it on the bus jostling against your hip when we stop for lunch in Chinatown you leave it behind at the sushi place where a pony-tailed girl brings a porcelain tray of raw tuna for CAD$1.90. You travel back to claim it two buses and a walk in the hot June streets. Finally on the table, the fruit bowl tips drowsily to one side under the uneven weight of five Californian oranges. Tulia Thompson Tulia Thompson is of Fijian, Tongan and Pākehā descent. She has a masters in creative writing from the University of Auckland. She is published in Niu Voices: Contemporary Pacific Fiction 1 and Blackmail Press. Her young adult novel Josefa and the Vu was published by Huia in 2007. She blogs about social justice at www.tuliathompson.wordpress.com. More by Tulia Thompson › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 18 November 2024 · Art Art and ethics in death: the case of Vivian Maier Maks Sipowicz In the internet age we have the means to make Vivan Maier's photographs and materials available to everyone, preserved and displayed, away from the necromantic urges of capital accumulation at the expense of a dead artist. 12 November 202414 November 2024 · open letter End scholasticide in Palestine: an open statement Stop Scholasticide AU We, the undersigned who represent the diverse education community across the continent of Australia, demand an end to the complicity of the Australian education sector’s leaders in the systematic destruction and attempted annihilation of the Palestinian education system.
