Amber Essau is a New Zealand-born Samoan-Maori-Irish poet.  Here is her poem Horoi.  (Definitions below)

Horoi
We enter like hands
open out
to cleanse
before the gate
water snaps
its fingers
along our side
Mum tells us
to wind up the windows
as we mould ourselves
into the lay of rocks
crunching
with
crisp coercion
summer immersion
leaving behind
the city
& green is new
to me
cows grinding
into grass
mountains
the shrivelling kina roe
on the horizon
water
sizzles
as
we
submerge
dip out
of worries
that follow
the stream
swim out of my hair
Dip in
to way whenua
learn
the ways
blossom
my Samoan father
would say
going up to great
grandpa’s old house
young
refreshed
water
but now
there’s a bridge

horoi: wash, clean, cleanse, wipe.
kina: sea urchin, a delicacy much prized by many Maori
way whenua: stream, creek, river, water