The Pastoral Kitchen by Anna Jackson

Author:Anna Jackson [Anna Jackson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry
ISBN: 9781869406134
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

so sweet

and so cold.

This is just to say,

takahe.

Moa

The first Maori waka arrived

at a pastoral kitchen,

stocked with moa

roaming on giant drumsticks,

named by the Maori settlers

‘chicken’, which is

to say, meat.

They moved as slowly

as a crowd, and loudly

as a feast,

which is what, after all,

they were.

Those pastoral days

when we walked

with our dinner,

two legs by two,

if we had not got along

so well, may well

have lasted

longer.

Kakapo

(for Gideon Climo, who sent the feather)

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