A snippet of a clipping of a newspaper interview on a young comedian’s corkboard, underlined and encircled in red pen by Whaitiri Tua-Warbrick
(After ‘The Smallest Superhero in the World’ by Kai, aged 7)
–and it’s no small irony,” said Mr Molecular
after sipping from his coffee cup
and softly grinning,
reminiscing,
“that my mother took my father’s name,
when her maiden name was Biggs—
Whaitiri Tua-Warbrick (Rāngitane / Ngāti Raukawa) is a poet who lives in Palmerston North and is a multi-modal, omnipresent librarian. He writes poetry when he’s not out walking and trying to be a person. You can find his work in Landfall, Starling, Bloodbath Journal, Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems.
