Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HAPA-HAOLE, by WALKER WINSLOW


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HAPA-HAOLE, by                    
First Line: That face that peers out through your face
Last Line: It took a fiery blood to thaw your ice!


That face that peers out through your face,
yankee locked in savage,
jailed in beauty New England was too barren for,
has lost its caste.

Hawaiian Boy, those flowers around your throat
are a mockery ...
worse than Stocks in Salem on a market day.

The sea-timed language, waved with vowelly sound,
has broken rugged granite to get through ...
those lips that broke off life and words with consonants.

Eyes that glared at the gale through the whaler's wheel,
and purchased hard shackles from the New Testament,
are trapped behind orbs
that dilute sight as wine dilutes water.

Yankee, here is the tribute to your blood!
and the mockery ...
your puritanical soul trapped
to suffer joy and abandon ...
it took a fiery blood to thaw your ice!





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