Month: September 2016

       that pearl                             for Keikei                             see note below I. your father a truly educated man for he had that gift of the seer saw the woman in the just-born child named you after that pearl that grows just a little off centre that grows beyond perfection like the bump of laughter raised in…

There really was no one. Except a visitor. She stood before her, lowered her head to look into her eyes the way women do, and pulled her in. She was embracing loss; a lonely woman with red eyes who wondered how her love, given freely as a mother had not been returned. So her silver…

Today she wore blue, an old cardigan, the buttonholes at odds. She tried to smile; creases of pain – the loss at the corners of her mouth. Broken promises, too etched deep. She looked away. Then down. She always sits there. In blue. Her smile is not a smile. It is sadness pulled up. It…

in your pocket your words always few and well-used something deep in your pocket you took out and showed us putting them back again in a closed hand down into that darkness wearing thin, the coming light that one afternoon smashed in your eyes just when you have a measure of what you’re up against…

the chain travelling the dawn the sky all h e a r t pale showing the star the bird loose on the d a r k of our hearing november 1991 grandview rd., auckland

little sparrow little sparrow riding on the branch of pine in a wind with smell of rain you chirp under the clutter of sounds around me chirp on through my ear chirp on as though believing the god of growing things will kneel to you place fullness into your mouth they won’t nor the dark…

mind cave walking the low tide your eye stayed far from those low caves along the cliffs, scoops of shadow, something troubling about caves in mind, you were elsewhere. kneeling on the reef at the tidal pools an instant blown unclear trawling your hand through the warmish water in wait for the treasures of miniature…

Oh blue moon I see you so bright, as your colour reflects brightly upon the water in the night. I see pigs flying south across the northern sea, it makes me curious what this could all be. As i see you pull the tide, so much of a surprise to see what is inside. Oh…

Can you taste the world, it burns festering inside of me. Can you love at all, hating everything that it will always be. They control the evil ones in those positions poisoning the society. I thought it was me that was breaking to see right down the broken hearted machines. If I had known the…

Girl you are my luck charm, the one that gives me hope and aim as to who I am You are incredible like a rose in bloom, I’m still trying to get a grip of how lucky I am The sun shines brighter because of you every day, because before that my world was grey…

I walk into the shadows the mood splits the trees, this hand of despair has me on my knees. His weaving and plotting is all that he cares, as long as you captive and filled with his fears. It doesn’t take long like putty in his dark hands, it beginning to crush me and destroy…