Tourism


      People think we’re
      German tourists

      or Norwegian
      outside the fiscal

      envelope hui
      grimacing faces

      Go Home Whitey

      I don’t mind
      I am going

      home
      __________________


      The Buried Village


      e hora noa mai ra
      i te po uriuri
      i te po tangotango
      waiho nei te aroha
      waiho nei te mamae
      ka ki kino i taku kiri
      i maringa awai to roimata
      i aku kamo ki te iwi
      ka wehe …
      __________________


      Northern Southland


      Where the trucks
      double declutch

      & roar by
      a black & yellow

      AA sign
      points a way down

      Old Lake Road
      I’ll never go
      __________________

Poems from a road trip made in New Zealand in the 1990’s
by the writer and poet Martin Edmond
from his chapbook The Big O Revisited
recently published by and available from
Soapbox Press
36 Old Mill Rd
Grey Lynn, Auckland
New Zealand

One of Martin Edmond’s three blogs is Luca Antara

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