Lahainatown (a two part viator)

Lahainatown (a two part viator)

1.

… and then they died
alone in cars
running through smoke
leaping for sea

huddled hopeless
and then they died
unthinkably
along the streets

trapped in their homes
screaming, pleading
and then they died
prayers in their throats

unanswered prayers
swept up in flames
burned with their flesh
and then they died.

2.

Lahainatown
oh, Maui’s heart
lies desolate,
suffocated.

Unmarked graveyard
Lahainatown
of bone and teeth
in powder silt

still and silent
host of fireghosts
Lahainatown
welcomes them all

to stay among
the healing arms
of Banyon roots,
Lahainatown…

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