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AINA LEI

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2008

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Abstract

Type
Poetry/Fiction: Poems
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

Polu cloud mitochondria
is linked like pearls.
Banyan roots drop.
Branch grounds to branch.
Black hair braid.
Thatched roof amulet.
Angel hair shields taro leaf
weaving a fine mesh net for fish.
Pohaku labyrinth,
Lava tube portal links to another world.
Pele's hair filament
is blood red vein, now exposed.
Catch the wave crest.
Be purged by the flow.
Haloa star womb.
Pretzeled limb.
Rainbow is the road
God takes going home.
Without word, message is sent.
Hear the space between sound.
Xylem, phloem.
A quilted energy blanket.
Green growing Kupapako
cradles us and is womb.