ekehatuna

Eketahuna has to be one
of my favo(u)rite words/
names, sounds, for a town, 
and here is an entrance.
Photo: Door and shadow, Eketahuna, New Zealand

the meeting

Here, lake meets sea.
Photo: At Lake Onoke,
Palliser Bay, New Zealand

traveling

How we travel
with the camera
at eye, in hand.
Photo: P. photographing,
Lake Onoke, New Zealand

white light

Some days, the light 
is so bright and white 
that we might disappear into it.
Photo: Home in Masterton, New Zealand

white kiwi

Maybe the bird guards us and trees 

for millions of years.

They stay with the same mate, 

sleep with beak tucked,

make two balls of hair in the daylight.

Photo: The back of a very large kiwi bird

in the town of Ekehatuna, New Zealand
Text: Excerpt from my poem: "Kiwi"