MEDIATOR TEACHER
POET PERFORMER

This woman I met

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Tells me she has four hives already, a good start

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The thing is/not

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a slim woman slants water from a squat jug

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Gifts to behold

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For my first I gave him a soft tracing of my neck.

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Bonsai swimmer

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Winter solstice week, and the elderly widower

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John Adams is a published poet and writer; a teacher and mediator/arbitrator. He lives in Auckland.

A Family Court Judge for 20 years, John has three degrees in English from Auckland University: Masters in Creative Writing (First Class Hons, 2010); Grad Dip Arts (Distinction, 2012) and Post Grad Dip Arts (Distinction in English, 2014).

In 2013, while a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, UK, he wrote a dissertation on judicial rhetoric: What does judicial discourse imagine law is doing?

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