Index of titles

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

NāŌiwi 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