MAORI IN SUBURBIA-II Standing by the kitchen sink with tea towel in hand A noise, coming from he knows not where, suddenly awakens in his brain Another noise similar, from out his long—so he thought—forgotten past. It is the women wailing at a tangi. But it is more than the women Wailing at a particular tangi that he hears now. It is the wailing of the women through the generations. The past suddenly converging on him. Condensed in a moment. And he is part of that past—the history of his people. And again as at that tangi as a child Tears welled up from deep within him and overflowed. And for a moment he was no longer part of that suburban house With its well-kept lawns and concrete path, Its neat street with its neat-kept houses all about him. Rowley Habib
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Te Ao Hou, 1972, Page 21
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