28 (Māori) Battalion: LVII The Māori Way 41
28 (Māori) Battalion: LXV Māori Battalion Veteran 42
A Definition of Atua 256
A Ghost 115
A Letter to My Brother 82
A Measure of Manukau 8
A Pain with a Butt 150
A Sāmoan Star-chant for Matariki 121
A Special Expedition 59
A Stuck-Up 152
Adrift 86
Afakasi Philosophy 160
After reading Jonathan Waterman 56
Ahi Kā – The House of Ngā Puhi 214
Alapati 93
An Artist’s First Friday 216
Ancestors 156
As good as it gets 49
As Rats Climb the Coconut Trees 263
At the Conference 33
at the Takitimu Festival 2008 186
Between Bells 6
Birthday Present 195
Blood Quantum 2 105
Boy in a Sleeping Bag 266
Brightness 55
By the Blur of My Hands 110
Cages for the Wind: XI Warning to Children 42
Cannibals 175
Cape Return 213
Captain Cook 209
Car commercials 62
Cardboard Crowns 119
Cave of Prophecies 257
Chant of Lamentation 237
Cloth saints 132
Colonisation 240
Conversation With A Ghost 1974–1985 29
Conversation with a moahunter 59
Cook Islands Rhapsodies: I Dreams of Takuvaine Road 43
Cook Islands Rhapsodies: IX Taunganui Landing, Atiu 44
Cook Islands Rhapsodies: XI At the Farewell Dinner, Rarotonga 44
Daddy Said 160
Daddy’s Little Girl 204
Dawn approaching I think of a friend 63
Dear Mom 199
Deep Water Talk 154
Disguise 208
Down on the Sidewalk (in Waikīkī) 261
Down we go 176
Ē Laka Ē 79
Eating Dark Chocolate and Watching Paul Holmes’ Apology 137
Ed’s Ho‘okupu 144
Endings 6
Evolution 87
feet of clay: a tribute and an accusation 205
Filemu Sāmoa! 118
First Landing 57
fishbone 222
For Ida 136
For Tasi (Dotsy) 96
For the Wonders of the Universe 20
for tim buckley 170
Forehead to forehead 61
Found Again 24
Fragments of a Māori Odyssey 212
Fresh from the Islands 12
Friday 158
Galulolo 259
Garden 26 255
Garden 4 254
Garden 5 254
Ginger roots 60
Gogolo 169
Hālāwai 5
Hands, from The Adventures of Vela 258
Haumea 113
Hear the Dogs Crying 141
hearts 173
Hi‘uwai 106
Hīkoi Poem 47
Hina-i-ke-ahi 217
Hinemoa’s daughter 223
hiroki’s song 173
How She Knows She is Māori: a checklist 76
How the ‘Iva Flies 149
How Things Change 23
How to Train Your Labourer 87
Huli 260
I Am Stupid 11
‘I feel like a vulnerable pā-site’ 246
iMāori 51
In Her Wake 249
In Memoriam: Agnes ‘Pako’ Yandall Gabbard 197
In Our Time 236
It was a time of heartbreak / Ka pā mai te pouri i taua wā 153
It Was Morning 142
Jerry, Sheree, and the Eel 116
jetty in the night 221
Kaho‘olawe 84
Kalua 146
Kereihi (‘Standing quite still’) 242
Kina 77
Kou Lei 215
Kukui (Lufi Luteru) 107
Kukui (Brandy McDougall) 113
Last Born 17
Late Night Farewell 103
Legendary 139
Letter to a friend 46
letter to feifafa 226
letter to the colonel 227
Lili‘u 148
Livin’ ina Aucklan’ 139
Maka‘awa‘awa 101
Make Rope 80
Makua 52
Māori Land Protest March 73
Māui’s Alternate Prayer 210
Midnight Oceans 179
Muriwai 39
My Mother and Me 219
Nā ‘Ōiwi 233
Nafanua explains her pedigree 15
Nafanua talks about her tupu ‘aga o le āiga 16
Nāmakaokaha‘i 234
Nasalia 27
Native-Hawaiian 265
Nautilus Woman 25
Nifo Oti 162
Nightfall 195
No Motorbikes, No Golf 130
No Smoke without Fire 128
Noa Noa Makes Breakfast for Caroline and Me / Or / The Tea Ceremony is Introduced to Sāmoa 192
Not that kind of Māori 126
Ocean of Tongues 129
Ode to a blowfly 244
Olo 98
On becoming an Icon (!) 245
On Cooking Captain Cook 112
On Finding My Father’s First Essay, 111
Once – 127
Once, a long time ago 9
One a Day – a 7 Maiden Rave On / or … The Dusky ain’t Dead she Just Diversified 188
Our Past 151
Our tīpuna remain 45
Pa‘u-stina 13
Pakalolo 265
Patsy Cline/Genesis 231
peace 224
Platoon 158
Posala & Gogo’sina III 167
Post Hurricane Observation 194
Pouliuli 4 168
Prepare to Move into the White House 143
Primitive Thinking Things, Animals 151
Pute ‘Oso – A Full Life 191
Quilt Poem 88
Recess 90
Request 209
Rivers Without Eels 58
Sāmoa 228
Saturday 71
School Street Bridge 84
She Dreams 250
Ship Girl 267
Shiva’s Left and Right Shoulder and Hand 232
Sisters 238
Sound Check 19
Spaces 53
Speaking out 177
Spring dreams 207
Statehood 260
Steve Irwin Way 54
Still 18
Takapuna Beach 55
Tame Iti 74
tangiwai 221
Tango 72
Tatz 78
Te Tiriti O Waitangi (Oh, The Treaty) 40
Teina 126
Tell Me a Story 185
Thank You Colonialism For: 164
The Archbishop 53
The backbone of things 243
The Beach 36
The Broken Pounder 67
The daffodils – from a native’s perspective 65
The Hawaiian 264
The Kahuna of Waikīkī 262
The Ko‘olau 247
The Laugh That Gave Her Away 191
The Market 94
The Night He Broke My Heart 190
the reincarnated mm: a cross cultural exchange between the big island taxi drivers and the young girl a expert visiting sāmoa for the south pacific games 34
The Swans 32
The Tower 157
The Visitor 68
the way ahead 225
Thoughts on what’s happening on Waiheke Island 48
Tinā ea 196
To A Sensitive Person 30
To Elespie, Ian & their Holy Whānau 246
Took: A Preface to ‘The Magpies’ 210
tribal 171
Turakina Street 124
Two Nudes on a Tahitian Beach, 1894 123
Untitled 183
Upon Hearing the News that My Friend Has Terminal Cancer 12
Urupā 88
Vārua Tupu 211
Virgin Loi 134
Visiting Tonga: A Sestina Variation 133
Vu ni yalo 28
Waiata Tangi 74
Waiting for the Pālagi 193
Waiting for the Sunrise at Haleakalā 108
Where the Fern Clings 235
White Woman 102
Wild Daisies 31
Wild Dogs Under My Skirt 14
Winter interior 208
With Hone in Las Vegas 251
Zen 22
zigzag roads 222