She can smell
Cowdung in the mist of
Solaua, where her heart
From a rubber tree
Telling her of German tyranny
And Chinese indentured labour.
She lusts for the earth so
Completely there,
For he, unknowingly showed her
A naked picture of surrealist
Beauty in eerie stumps
And ancient banyans,
Flying foxes and white ginger.
Momoe Malietoa Von Reiche (born 1971) Samoa
Source: Nuanua
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