It was late, we were driving home in the rain I thought I saw something flying across the two-lane It was white like an angel - or like curse There and gone in a second in front of us In our house all the trophies are gat.. Read »

Behind all the rusting cranes, in the lengthening shadows of the Empire days there's a world that waits, but it's not needed. In the teeming rows behind the goal - yelling for blood on the pitch below; where does all the p.. Read »

I saw you walking away from the battlefield Through the clearing smoke to the other side Lay down your weary head And gazing up two ocean birds are wheeling, turning Paekakariki Beach on the other side By the green of t.. Read »

We were singing in the rain - like we invented singing There's a light in the sky from a million street lights And we danced all the steps from all those old time movies Rolling down the hill with laughing hearts In Poiso.. Read »

The curtain breathes, the air swims The sweat dries cold on the shivering skin The sheets they twist and turn again, round and round My mother she feeds and cares for me Shackled to responsibility All her precious dreams.. Read »

The rains move in eastwards, in waves of succession Drawing lines of grey across the sky With history just as close as a hand on the shoulder In hunger and impatience we cry The battle against corruption rages in each cor.. Read »

To the Queen of my Heart, from the King of Nowhere I have watched you arming, and how you wave your sword in the air; always fighting the shadows as they move behind you, and the beating wings that hover around you . . . .. Read »

Days into weeks of Sunday afternoons Nothing much for us to say nothing real for us to do Just watch the carousel go round and round in endless circles in the pupil of the Deadeye until you just feel numb It's virtual Jer.. Read »

This all started the way things do With a laugh and a cup of tea around the fire As we sheltered from those wicked winds in front of that old TV And we traded ideas as we watched each other with those ambitious bright eyes.. Read »

It's a silent scream in rain town How far have we fallen now? And the rain come, wash away The promised land that is here to stay We came back, things left undone Like uncut stone And little breathes and nothing fills, .. Read »