(for Kate)

yesterday
i watched
your hands
weave a dream
across my memory
bringing order and texture
to that pile of voivoi
still there
filling the fale
that once was home

today
i watch
your hands
move across the page
across the canvas
across the room
releasing energy
arranging

This book is made of poems inspired by photos taken by Tokiko, they were exhibited at the Tjibaou Cultural Center in 2003, and they are displayed in this book in a different manner. The idea which took the form of the exhibition and later this book deals with

Founded in February 2006, Adelaide PEN now has 25 members, including well known authors, poets and others involved in the local and international writing industry.

Adelaide PEN first showed itself at Writers’ Week during the Adelaide Festival of Arts in 2006, exciting interest

I: The Reviewers Revenge
For Som

Scabs linger long in act of remembering incarceration
Acts physic being thrown flung sack back of steel tray
Sobs take the place of warm hand on back at cremation
Wilted passage in revenge as bad grammar now in play
A paperback proclaims own

For Amelia Rokotuivuna

I: Cremation
Rain did not grieve instead indelibly danced with fire
Hymns a choir on jisu sits on warm shloka’s shoulder
Friends amble around hillock whipped by sea zephyr
Questions asked on choice of fire and pyre of wood
Shared cremation with a law