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Here the palms grow tall
Challenging the sun.

Goat droppings perfume
Mosquito grottos.

Bufo
croaks
The underbrush alive.

Ferns battle for light.
Earth fouled

By Dole Pineapple
Accepts monsoon rain,

Driving poison into
The netherworld

Ruled by Hawaiians.
Spirits of lost

Piha Kanaka Maoli
Weep in the darkness.

~

Bufo
: toad
Piha Kanaka Maoli
: having pure Hawaiian blood