i'm writing a 20-page paper on postcolonial tourism

(in the pacific, esp hawai'i)

~*~*~

the other day, dominique
and i walked through the forest.
 it was so wonderful that we could
chat about haunani-kay trask
and epeli hau'ofa's 'our sea of islands'

i just remembered that

i had to memorize a samoan poem once.

o oe se a? 
(~80% of the poem consisted of vowels)