Live Encounters Poetry & Writing Volume Three November-December 2024
Aotearoa Poets and Writers Special Edition
Inanahi te rā (Yesterday the Sun), poem by Pasha Mahuto’a Clothier.
Inanahi te rā (Yesterday the Sun)
Inanahi te rā
Tēnei rā te whenua
Āpōpō te moana
Kātahi te tōuarangi
Te Wai o te taiao
Ki te hā!
Yesterday the sun,
Today the earth
Tomorrow the ocean
Then the rain
The flow of the universe
To the breath!
© Pasha Mahuto’a Clothier
Pasha Mahuto’a Clothier has whakapapa to Tahiti, Hitiaurevareva (Pitcairn) and Te Wai Pounamu. An artist-writer, they co-founded the Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand residency, symposium and exhibition every two years from 2006 to 2019. They have 28 credits for non-fiction and poetry including Ngā Pūreha Kapohau A Literary Homage to Pātea, Waverley and Waitōtara 2024, the PhD thesis (VC Scholarship, Auckland University of Technology, awaiting oral examination) Ngaru Whenua: Diffracting Indigenous Practices, Quantum Theory, Electronic Art and the Anthropocene and The Oxford University Handbook of Sound Art 2021.