Pip the takahe bird is lost in the forest and searches for a place tosleep, finally finding his mother and home.
David Rei Miller is an environmental engineer of NgatiTuwharetoa, NgatiKahungunu, and New Zealand European descent. He has had a short story published in the Massey University magazine Craccum and received Highly Commended for his poem Kaupokonui in the Ronald Hugh Morrieson Literary Awards. He has been lost in the same swamp on two separate occasions.
