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
too complicated
too complicated,
you said
and you were right.
too much en cumb rance
thwarting
anynascentbonds;
no authentic aspect
to our torpid roles
here in this nutty prance
where we
stroll like skinny
zombies
who don't know of death
too complicated
you said.
and you wereright.