toikupu #12, 2026

toikupu #12, 2026

even an hour’s difference is changing 

the skyline on the hill out the window

of our whare; we in turn write about how 

even an hour makes the changing sun

out the window shift and kiss the skyline 

and the lips of our whare on the hill;

and the changing skyline is, for even an hour, pausing 

while the sun out the window liberates a poem about 

the skyline  

an hour at the window of our whare, 

we in turn write 

of liberation.

Rauhina Kohuwai-Banks

12/4/2026, Ōtepoti: toikupu #12