Sea Mammals

February 2016

 
 

Maori Poem at Nugget Point


Fur Seals


Chilling, child-like cries of kekeno

tussling for rock space below


Hunted for food and fur

two hundred years ago few were left


Remnants returned from their scattered refuge

rock shelves on Tokata now their nurseries

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