A well written body / Karlo Mila ; with paintings by Delicia Sampero.

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Published: Wellington, N.Z. : Huia, 2008.
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Format: Book
Table of Contents:
  • Where are you from? A place to stand
  • Inside us the dead (the New Zealand-born version)
  • Where are you from?
  • Five poems on not being a real Tongan
  • There are no words for us
  • For my cousin
  • Fonu
  • These are the new legends. Poem for Luamanuvao Winnie Laban
  • Creation myth
  • These are the new legends
  • For nine months no words
  • Victory to the people: Nikolasi is born
  • Honouring Tu'ipelehake
  • July 6, 2006
  • A commoner's lament
  • Paper mulberry secrets
  • Mother-of-pearl
  • A well written body
  • Floor show on the south side
  • Safe journey
  • How I came to love the King. How I came to love the King
  • Sunrays down
  • Return of the King
  • The cortege
  • Eating media umu
  • For Baron Vaea
  • The King's Road
  • Backlash
  • Duty is joy
  • Inheritance
  • Brown-eyed girl
  • From the ashes. Who will douse the lights?
  • The kulukulu calls
  • www.TONGA-NOW.to
  • Black butterfly. I am not a playcentre mother
  • Cocoon
  • Pupae
  • La-di-da
  • Flutter
  • The black butterfly
  • Pulotu wings
  • Waking the taniwha
  • How to write a love poem
  • lnsomnia
  • Gypsy moth
  • This is how the story goes
  • Icarus of the iris
  • Let us
  • How to catch a butterfly
  • The sex life of butterflies
  • Our psychic hands
  • The black albatross
  • How poems are made
  • The end of butterfly weather
  • One-season wonders
  • Oceania
  • For the father of my children
  • I am swimming among my selves
  • Tūrangawaewae
  • Glossary
  • Acknowledgements