Baxter part 2

Here is a poem from Autumn Testament that I find striking:

He Waiata
Mo Te Kare 5

No rafter paintings,
No grass-stalk panels,
No Maori mass,

Christ and his Mother
Are lively Italians
Leaning forward to bless,

No taniko band on her head,
No feather cloak on his sholder,

No stairway to heaven,
No tears of the albatross.

Here at Jerusalem
After ninety years
Of bungled opportunities,
I prefer not to invite you
Into the pakeha church.

(James K Baxter, Autumn Testament, 1972, Price Milburn and Company: Wellington, pp. 2).