black swan

Do you remember floating with me in a freezing lake in urewera jungles
at waikaremoana?
Do you remember eating vegetarian meal at a Maori tent in urewera
jungles at waikaremoana?

no year can start

or end

without

thinking of you
or
warkworth.
after two
months in hamilton
am going

to wellington.
got chosen
in the poetry
writing course.
spend new year
at
waikaremoana

with tame iti
and other terrorists
deep in the jungles
of urewera
in a gazebo
not a tent

in the freezing waters
where black swans swim.
and toi toi grows
like pampas

thought of you
and your fight
for moaris and
other just / fair causes

reminding me
of why you are
impossible to forget

if donkeys knew the colour of saffron

snake pits would be a safer place

as */wawa /*waters rise

acid for brain

colored to show waves

a coffe place goes begging

crying alone in the rains

a smile a heart a tadpole jumps

out of the muddy pond