“The Garden of the Unmarried Aunties” Ethel May Rerekura, New Zealand (1879–1958)

Behind the house they weren’t meant to own,

they grew kūmara and kōwhai.

No husbands. No priests.

Just cousins, seedlings,

and songs in the dirt.

From A Poem A Day: Australasia & the Pacific

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