Here are a few sample poems from the book:
Flax
A Southerly rouses the rabble gathered
at the borders
stiff swords upraised. I walk their gauntlet;
Thief they whisper
Invader.
It is too late for negotiation
their banners unfurling
insignia of tūī of silver-eye.
A call to arms.
Red throated trumpets
blare
in the early sunlight.
Promised
All summer
we watched over
the wild bramble of blackberries
as though it were ours
as though we’d been promised
some aliquot of sweetness
bore witness
to the flowering
then the slow setting of the fruit.
But the relentless rain has come early
the rot has set in
and now the blackbirds squabble over a few
purpled nubs of ruin.
Two Hemispheres Poetry 