Iain Britton
Military Equation
The rule is simple
draw the outline first
put in the helmet
add the body shape
chest pelvis arms and legs
the sexual bits uniform.
The sum total
should be equal to
a headless hill.
Iain Briton has been published widely in New Zealand. Other literary publications include Manifold, Links, Iota and Orbis (UK), Slope 16, The Drunken Boat, Conspire (USA) and John Tranter’s, Jacket 22 (Aust). Poems are forthcoming in Tinfish (USA) and Carillon (UK) very soon. At present he is putting together his first collection. He is Director of Maori Studies at King’s School, Auckland, New Zealand.