Over the last 50 years, contemporary Pacific Islander poets have crated a vibrant and diverse range of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Even though this literature has circulated within and beyond …
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From “understory”
BY CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ
For my pregnant wife, nālani, during her second trimester
nālani and i walk to our small community garden plot in mānoa — the seed packets in my pocket sound like a baby’s toy rattle — when do they spray glyphosate along the sidewalks? from kunia to waimea, fifty thousand acres of gmo fields — how will open air pesticide drift affect our unborn daughter, whose nerve endings are just beginning to root? — we plant seeds in rows, soil gathers under our fingernails — syngenta, dupont, dow, pioneer, basf, monsanto $240 million seed sector — corn for cattle feed and syrup — runoff turns [our] streams red — poisons lo‘i — 50,000 heart sea urchins die off — what will our daughter be able to plant in this paradise of fugitive dust —
