my best friend turned a year older today.
An auspicious occasion, because it means…
what will be
on the day of judgment
when the scrolls are unburied,
and the museums…
lain here, a doing of my own
a collection of chaff from the world
tears…
ori’kahangare
is a prayer
my own people say
words strung into hymns
an ask to the gods
intentions…
My mother.
I write poems about her in my sleep.
She brings flowers to my…