Hinemoana Baker Biography
Hinemoana Baker was born in 1968 in Christchurch (New Zealand) and grew up in Whakatane and Nelson. She has tribal connections ranging from Otakou Peninsula to the Horowhenua and Maunga Taranaki.
She is a poet, musician and playwright. Her writing has featured in anthologies and literary journals, and her first collection of poetry, mātuhi / needle, was published in 2004.
What is silver? Into this finger-space
the kotuku appears, flying once only
and far - to Holland, the vacated
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Pepper blacks the pan so never shake it near me.
Wait for the flagrant animation in my bedroom, in my bed base.
In mountaineering situations sleep swaddled, wake ecstatic
my frantic menus in your mind.
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I feel
said the woman on the bus
like I've swallowed a branch.
Is this a new flu?
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She walked around a lot in her dressing gown.
When she got cancer she couldn't say it, the word itself.
Above the doorway was a thing in a frame: close up
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Like trees, there are rings
in the small headbones of an eel
we count the rings to find the age.
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