Amelita came to me in a dream.<\/p>\n
She was going to move<\/p>\n
to Oahu.<\/p>\n
She said she could drive those<\/p>\n
super-highways.<\/p>\n
I thought it was a risky move.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
She lost everything in the fire.<\/p>\n
Like so many others I loved.<\/p>\n
Just the clothes on her back.<\/p>\n
Last I heard<\/p>\n
she was being shuffled around.<\/p>\n
But she had shelter<\/p>\n
and food.<\/p>\n
and a job if she can get to it.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In my dream she was moving to Oahu.<\/p>\n
Like so many others.<\/p>\n
Lahaina a nightmare,<\/p>\n
they would rather forget.<\/p>\n
Mysterry has a place now.<\/p>\n
And Dorie got to go shopping<\/p>\n
on the community’s dime.<\/p>\n
She is safe<\/p>\n
in a condo with family.<\/p>\n
Carole isn’t anything.<\/p>\n
She lost her life.<\/p>\n
I try not to think of her<\/p>\n
last few minutes.<\/p>\n
But the vision is there<\/p>\n
when I am drifting into sleep.<\/p>\n
It wakes me up, shaking<\/p>\n
every time.<\/p>\n
I dreamed Amelita is moving<\/p>\n
to Oahu<\/p>\n
to start over.<\/p>\n
Her gleam had returned.<\/p>\n
The one she had when she laughed.<\/p>\n
Sorely missing the last time I saw her.<\/p>\n
Tim is safe.<\/p>\n
Peg won’t rebuild<\/p>\n
she is moving to California<\/p>\n
Closer to family I guess.<\/p>\n
I don’t blame her.<\/p>\n
Ellen was in Australia.<\/p>\n
Missed the whole thing.<\/p>\n
But lost it all anyway.<\/p>\n
She will stay there<\/p>\n
for six months<\/p>\n
to figure out what to do.<\/p>\n
I dreamed Amelita was moving<\/p>\n
to Oahu.<\/p>\n
A foolish dream.<\/p>\n
It would be too much for her.<\/p>\n
Cathy and her enormous family<\/p>\n
made it out of Hawaiian homes.<\/p>\n
Thank God.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
There is a list of hundreds,<\/p>\n
unaccounted for.<\/p>\n
I scan the list, no one left<\/p>\n
I know. Finally.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
But the list of those lost<\/p>\n
have become my friends,<\/p>\n
my worries too.<\/p>\n
Even though I don’t know them.<\/p>\n
I dreamed Amelita is moving<\/p>\n
to Oahu.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Lahaina is gone. Gone.<\/p>\n
The store that was such a part of my life<\/p>\n
now ash and mangled metal.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
At least they are okay. Poets<\/p>\n
Friends, employees.<\/p>\n
Everyone safe but Carole.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I dreamed Amelita is moving<\/p>\n
to Oahu.<\/p>\n
I hope her broken heart<\/p>\n
is healed again.<\/p>\n
Somehow, someway.<\/p>\n
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