Bio
New Zealander (Te Atiawa) with a home in Te Araroa, East Coast. Currently lives and works in Hong Kong and has spent many years overseas in places such as Brunei Darussalam, Republic of Nauru, UAE, PR China. Married to a lady from Philippines, where we also have a home, in Pampanga.
Lucky to have been published in a wide range of publications and places worldwide: longlisted for Proverse Prize in Literature, 2009. Ph.D in Existential Literary Criticism. A further collection of poems is scheduled for publication later in 2010.
Vaughan Rapatahana
toa
these tattooed words
h i r
wlforth,
curlicues
a s t r i d e
myhulking
chest
itself habitat
of skin-seared pitau;
these jointmanaia,
the presumptuous jaw,
the cowled brow,
scorch
my mightymana,
firm me to the soilanchor mehere
av a s tdarkBULK
preparing to
pounce.