Notes

Poems Intro -- Te Kooti -- The womb -- Taiaha Haka poem -- A departure -- Sad joke on a marae -- Moon magic -- The Pohangina Hawk -- The seagull -- Evil winds -- In the heartbeat -- Thoughts on the road -- Leap frog -- Patu pounamu -- Thunder god -- Spring -- The Puriri tree -- A man -- Whakapapa -- I am -- Te Ihi -- Kia a Pru -- The family tree -- Listen -- Weaving -- Carving -- Rite tonu -- Uncle Hakaraia -- Grrrrrrr -- Nga kahu -- New hawks -- The mushroom -- Soft leaf falls of light -- The moon -- Gold -- Play time -- How great -- Maori girl -- K Mart way -- Guts -- To my darling Pru -- Searching -- Seeking -- Looking -- Huri huri -- Kapiti -- Titoku -- Parihaka -- Before the mountain -- Zigzag roads -- Fishbone -- Lady Anorexia -- Breaking through -- Hinemoa's daughter -- Understanding -- Aids -- Nature calls -- On Paekakariki Beach -- The temple -- Rawene -- Startled birds -- We are -- My whenua -- Close -- Haka -- The worm -- Coca-cola Jesus and Mitsubishi Mary -- Tangiwai -- Poem for a princess -- Dole-day warrior -- E Api e -- Harakeke -- To Te Rerenga Wairua -- It is -- Time (1), time (2), time (3) -- Thought -- Struck -- Invisible -- A great seamstress -- Swiss mountains -- Survivor -- Stone age -- Aroha -- The heavenly miracle -- Autumn (1), autumn (2) -- Blood drops -- The Sami -- The bellow -- He dog -- Warriors of love -- Dragons -- The bomber -- Easter eggs -- Six million -- Peace lanterns -- In the wind -- Charteris Bay -- The mauri -- Rules -- Comfort -- Walls of the night -- Golden Bay -- Teardrop -- Painter -- Te ate kura -- Darts -- A spring of beech -- Cold -- All Saints Day -- Senyru -- Little tea cups -- The swamp -- The wolf -- The feral cat -- The dream is real -- Kete -- Free -- Pepetuna -- The rose of peace -- A line dropped from Heaven -- Jetty in the night -- Stance -- 4 lingual poem -- What I am -- Words -- Rat a tat tat -- Water -- Questioning -- Catching the waka -- Can u c -- Fisherman's platter -- Animal -- (To Pru) -- Pru -- O sun -- Daughter -- Reremoana -- Growing -- Flight -- Sipping -- Time to leave -- Atea -- Poem to Hone Tuwhare -- Thoughts before the headstone 08 -- Waitangi -- As if asleep -- Tiki tiki -- Forever -- Whew