No Tapu te Ranga ahau | Mia Walker, Saoirse Lynch, and Joe Bryant

As I look around, I see

waves like people coming together,

and waves crashing like dolphins coming together.

A mailbox like a person,

flowers like a banana.

I see broccoli trees,

beetles zooming along the highway,

falling leaves like raindrops,

a stem like a bomb fuse,

and I see grass popping out of the wall like witch’s hair.

I see statues on the sand.

I see a wall like an angry person.

I see blue birds like the sea,

bushes like hedgehogs.

I see the sun gleaming brightly,

I see the sun fading bit by bit.

On my leaf, I see

the holes are like secret countries,

the colour is like the sun,

the brown on my leaf is like a rough trunk of a tree.

The shape is like an old shrivelled-up aunty.