Contents include: Introduction / Graeme Lay -- A summer thing / Alice Glenday -- One summer / Adrienne M. Frater -- My enemy / Tania Hutley -- Waiariki / Patricia Grace -- Breathing / Tina Shaw -- Piha dunny do / Fay Weldon -- Kenneth's friend / Owen Marshall -- Why I never learned to swim / David Lyndon Brown -- Syrup / Linda Niccol -- Peace in our time / Kevin Ireland -- Where we floated the pohutukawa wreath / Kath Beattie -- Hokianga / John MacKinven -- Summer love / Graeme Lay -- Pararaha / Charlotte Grimshaw -- (from) Hummingbird / James George -- The paua gatherers / Maurice Shadbolt -- The rip / Christine Johnstone -- Free as a bird / David Hill -- My beautiful balloon / Carl Nixon -- All the soul-and-body scars / Sarah Weir -- Castles in the sand / Nicola Kimpton -- Reading the waves / Jackie Davis -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements.