Thursday, August 9, 1984

HAWAII short poems



In Hawaii it is quiet tonight while Pele sleeps. 
A child asks do birds fly this high?
His mother answers: At this height 
it is too high for even the birds.


A three breasted Island is wrapped in cloud cover 
deceptively gentle slopes. Such cleavage.
The stewardess waits as I chugalug.
We circle before landing. Pau hana.
Some people called this place home. 


What the sea covers 
between the low and the high tide 
belongs to no man.

8/9 

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