let poems
be mist
-aken for the real
-ignment
of the ear
-th
from ars pasifika
our villages sing
-ed to ash
our voices end
-ure
from ars pasifika
weave
words into
a mast
carve
lines into
a hull
ask you
to hold
this poem
to be
the outrigger
Contributor’s Notes
Craig Santos Perez is a Pacific Islander writer from Guam. He is the author of six books of poetry and the co-editor of six anthologies. He is a professor in the English department at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
