“Pacific: Mateu, Matem” by Tyler Chadwick
by Patricia | 4.20.10(For Beikake)
both in white sarong
I bend you through the font
watch fabric rise
on water troubled
by the currents of death
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Mateu, Matem (Gilbertese): “my death, your death.”
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For Tyler’s bio and his other submission to the Spring Poetry Runoff, go here.
*Non-contest submission*