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Tunui | Comet is the first collection in more than a decade by one of our most important living Maori poets. Rolling easily between korero Maori and the canonical traditions of English-language poetry, through karakia and powhiri, treaty training and decolonisation wikis, Robert Sullivan takes readers on a marvellous poetic hikoi. Guided by Maui and Tawhirimatea, Moana Jackson and Freddie Mercury, we walk from K'Rd council flats to Kaka Point, finding ourselves and our ancestors along the way.
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Robert Sullivan
Robert Sullivan is the author of Rats, The Meadowlands, A Whale Hunt, and most recently, The Thoreau You Don't Know. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York, A Public Space and Vogue, where he is a contributing editor. He was born in Manhattan and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Tunui | Comet - Robert Sullivan
Tētahi Waerea (Prayer of Protection)
Clouds are habits
over the seabed north and south
feeding mineral salts
spreading the eels’ tails
and the eels’ mouths.
Taniwha all of them.
Taniwha swimming to the Waikato,
taniwha in their weirs
in the Nōta (up home)
all the way to Tonga.
The eel in me is a taniwha
who protects, who swims, who speaks
in bubbles, who meows with whiskers
on fields, who slides in esses,
who babies, who plays with kina
softly, tentatively, between
anemones and shell-shuttling
crabbies lit in mild pink,
but as an eel I am dark.
The wannabe guitarist in me is a soloist
with a mike, on a stool, guitar
resting on my knee, song
pitched to my throat
sharing a Maisey Rika lyric.
Yeah, right.
Can’t do the work for him, and I can’t do the work for her.
Can share this. About Te Whare o tō mātou mātua tūpuna
and how our songs and voices in te reo Māori
lifted me with many pairs of arms
so I had wings again. Ka ora ka ora.
Thank you very much: ngā mihi nunui e te whānau.
Yes, I speak plainly, when I hear your voice,
bringing the unseen chains of a grandfather clock
and a Polynesian paddle into the conversation.
We stand tall before we play the clock out
past the reef toward Matariki. Clouds raise
their fists as seagulls and sparrows swoon
into the rainbow. It has been a long homecoming
and he has made the pieces one.
Māui’s Mission
In the warmth of night I put feet to my plan: waited
for my brothers to sleep. They’d spent the day
sharpening their hooks, repairing the great net,
filling gourds with fresh water. They’d bundled
taro wrapped in leaves sitting below the cross seats.
The bundles and the net would cover
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