For Albert Wendt - (On his Birthday)

By Karlo Mila 20 February 2017, 12:00AM

you dare to fish

beyond the coral reefs

of our understanding

 

your net pulls in poems

flicking salty tales

 

you find nuanua

in the eye of hurricanes

celebrate thunder

we prefer not to hear

and relish 

the quicksilver laughter

of lightning

 

you shake the tree

of the frangipani

and as the flowers fall from grace

you string them into sentences

ants and all

 

your narrative is a needle 

that pierces the thickest skin

the ink of your pen

blending with our blood

tattooing stories of altered genealogies

between the lines

of our naked bodies

By Karlo Mila 20 February 2017, 12:00AM
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