New verse by Kaipara writer Sam Hunt.
My eldest brother
the Atheist
died Waitangi Day.
No word from him
no sign in
vision or dream.
He’s gone and
gone for good
like he said he would.
My other
brother, Jonathan,
may he finds what he lives for
a Catholic hereafter
and may he maybe
put in a word for me
his young brother…
forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive each other.
Sam Hunt, 2018
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Sam Hunt
Sam Hunt remains the most outstanding lyric writer in New Zealand verse. His first book of poems From Bottle Creek was published in 1969; his most recent book Salt River Songs was published in 2016. Sam was born in Castor Bay in 1946.
