The New Zealand environment in twelve lines

By Roger Childs

Anne Powell gives us a delightful description of the symbiosis of people with their ecology.

She incorporates elements of astronomy, geology, flora, fauna, climate and relief in placing us in the midst of our environment.

We are what surrounds us.

Star-maps

We are land

we are breathing

cleansed by rain.

We are flax

we are waiting

spellbound by tui.

We are rocks

we are resting

warmed by sun.

We are mountains

 we are present

 mapped by stars.

 

Anne Powell