somethingdarker

Think of all the lost words, still unspoken - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Words to unburden them of their meanings - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Winds and rains who have lost their names - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Descending the slopes of every mountain - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Our years of slow unknowing - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Reverting to the old knowing words - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

With the cold, dark fruit under our tongues - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

In the long record the sand has kept - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Succumb to the ocean and its hunger for stone - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Nets to catch the full sum of our being - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Prenatal earth rising in the volcano's throat - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Many branches find their roots - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

The threading of breath and blood - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Turn into a thousand dark miles of water - Brandy Nālani McDougall "On Finding My Father's First Essay"

Hide between clauses and commas - Brandy Nālani McDougall "On Finding My Father's First Essay"

Before the land was tamed by industry - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Pō"

Before the cane knife's rust - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Pō"

Before the centripetal spin of galaxies - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Pō"

The unwinding gestures of time and space - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Pō"

Pressing the entirety of a universe into a shell - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Pō"

To eat rocks like fruit - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Resist"

Stand in rage - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Resist"

To blow salt across blurred borders - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Resist"

we couldn't see where the water was born - Brandy Nālani McDougall "returning"

the thick tangle of branches of the cloud forest - Brandy Nālani McDougall "returning"

Only smoke from flailing ghosts - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Tehura"

A few hours to encircle in entirety - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"

Beaches foam-laced with rainbowing suntan oil - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"

The mountains tattooed with asphalt - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"

Between the lines of such hard edges - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"

The covert jackaling of helicopters and jets - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"

Past the thick memory of molasses - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"

Moonlit blowhole plumes of sound - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"

Alchemy expelling every parasitic thing - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"

Singing in our ancestors' language - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

After the wreckage of English and Americans - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

Such tenderness this early morning - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

Having heard bombs and guns - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

Tell the truth and sow the seeds of songs - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

For the promise within the wreckage - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

Their hurt seeps down into the dirt - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

Lighting the darkest of birthday mornings - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

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