Doug Poole
New Zealand/ Samoa
Doug Poole (b. 1970) is of Samoan and English descent. Current Publisher
and editor of blackmail press, an online poet focused journal, Doug‘s
work can be found online at Trout issue 11, Stalking Tongue Volume 2:
Slamming the Sonnet, Fugacity 05: nzepc feature, and blackmail press. His
works are also published in Paper tiger media world poetry CD 3 and Huia
publishers Niu Voices: Contemporary Pacific Fiction 1, 2006.
Tokyo skyline
Ben
Tangaroa
keep his stomach hungry
for your eastern coast
Papatuanuku
his aroha for you
mourns above the
Tokyo skyline
You are the inside
Of an uncut apple
Play for us, let us go
Ogata
Are you listening
to the scales of
spaces between (Va);
singing scream of darkness (Pouliuli)
before
T a g a l o a - a - l a g i
split the stone
unimpeded by gravity, the thin ear
are you breathing the notes
& half notes of time
Koyu
What does the ocean say
to your strings
creating aural shores
landscapes for minds
to bounce, clap, cry
Tangaroa lifts crestshigh
Taro
You hold time in a gaze
arms flow mountain water
quiver moments counting
girl love ocean
your patient hands
explode between
heart beats
basssnarecrashing
U m i n a r i
