green gone grey & hard
bland boxes of pine & brick
cleared the scrub
pestilence of gorse
heath fences of ancestors
never known
that were themselves, evicted
stripped, robbed, raped
that crawled between then choked
brackish Manuka and Kowhai
themselves, only newly named
now gone ...
but that was then and this is now
tomorrow never comes
yesterday means nothing
no history, no connections
no ownership
on the periphery.