Midden Secrets
I
In the heart of Lapaha
pigs graze
on the remains
of our ancestors
bereft of status
not worthy
of a Langi
their sorrows feed
the puaka’s
gut.
II
While at the road juncture
a collarbone juts out
defiantly. in. protest
searching
for its skull
long since crushed
by a China-loan
bulldozer
on its way to the Nopele’s
quarry.
III
Remembered, dismembered
midden secrets
buried deep below
talo
roots that
trace
seismic
fault-lines
all the way back to
Taiwan.