Sing-song 9781869405304, 1869405307

Table of contents :
Prologue: Da da --
The sing-song --
Myths and legends --
Going out, Grey Lynn --
Drift --
North-Western Motorway --
Epithalamium --
Consequence --
Spanner --
Turangawaewae --
Family planning association --
Life's important events are often veiled --
Order of preference --
Meantime --
Masked ball --
Thank you --
Plunket visits St. Helena --
Newborn baby --
Whenua (I) --
Art, Arch Hill --
Futures --
Her first archive --
Untitled --
All Souls, c.1964 --
Quack --
Lamentation --
Blackout --
Little lives, Leigh --
Shopping, Warkworth --
Advice --
And effect --
Jung --
The first rite --
Om --
Linguistics --
Readers and Fucking Writers Week --
Christening --
Prayer replacing sleep --
The Man She Wears on Her Back --
The anointing with steroid cream offered by the General Practitioner --
Lock and key --
Sparrows --
Do us a favour --
The magazine of white children --
The Cult of the Virgin --
Third rite --
Wyf of Bath --
Cataract --
Geology --
Holy War --
Cat Tales --
I Am (1) --
I Am (2) --
Wet patch --
Children's Section, Grey Lynn Library --
Yellow lava lava, Wellington --
Document --
I was a feminist in the eighties --
Nuclear winter --
Love Poem (1) --
Tarawera, fifth rite --
Untitled (too tired) --
Doubt --
The eczema-mother takes a part-time job --
Defence, Cheltenham --
Christ, not another rite! --
Whakapapa --
The Bells of Westminster --
Pacific --
Dragon Spleen (seventh rite) --
They are getting closer to God all the time --
Baby v. Homeopath --
Love poem (2) --
What Happened Next Door --
Outlook for Monday --
Millennium --
Witchy --
Red shoes --
Realm, New Lynn --
What he saw --
Well --
Whenua (2) --
Epilogue: I tell you solemnly.