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| "Pohnpei Harbor" photo by Cristina Querrer |
I will come back to you
without men who seek
your women & waters.
I will not come back to teach
but to talk & sing with you
by your rivers & waterfalls,
take each climbing curve
on your mountainside as
meditation.
I will come back on my own terms
to know the real you—not as
scientist, anthropologist,
exploiting ex-pat, parish priest,
or trans-continental company
you're used to,
but as mother & artist
with Pohnpei poems
I left behind.
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