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Moana Murray
This funny little dance
between fibers & threads
fingertips & skin
breath & soil
Wrapped around your finger like freshly exposed muka
Kua hāroa
Roughly bound together like para of that processed silk
I tīrahatia
Is it intentional?
How we found ourselves here
Did you mean to lull me?
Into this sweet mauri tau
Bundled, revered, held
Placed right where she should be.
Moana Murray (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kura, Ngāti Kauau, Takatāpui) is a grateful mokopuna, a kairaranga, a creative, and a scholar. Through her creative practice, Moana embodies how the formerly-diasporic and takatāpui Māori forge new routes to belonging and reject colonial constructions of what it means to be Indigenous. @zoemoana
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