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I'm a facilitator, technologist and gardener based on New Zealand's Kāpiti Coast.

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I'm a facilitator, technologist and gardener based on New Zealand's Kāpiti Coast.

  • about
  • writing
  • podcast
  • contact
  • search

I write essays, poems, vignettes, travelogues and commentaries.

  • LinkedIn
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Email

How many have perished?

How many have perished,
unwanted and abandoned.

The intact remains of their
delicately sliced life
on the side of my plate.

Thirty years and still
I forget to ask:

“Please, hold the tomatoes.”

Forgive me.

  • Post date
    17 May 2011
  • Posted in poem
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