Bio
Rapatahana is a Kiwi who lives and works in Hong Kong, with homes also in Pampanga, Philippines and in Aotearoa-New Zealand. He is published across several genre internationally.
Vaughan Rapatahana
whakarongo ki te manu huia
[kei muri i te awe kapara he tangata ke, mana i te ao, he ma]
they took the land
they took the word
they took us
they took
it took
us
twice as long to come back
twice as long to remember
twice as long
twice
as
many times to forgive
many times to forget
many times to
forget to
forgive
[listen to the huia bird -
behind the tattooed face a stranger lurks; he owns the world; he is white]