trout

snoring contests

Hannah-Marie Isaac

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                    mustache
               mohawk
          pillow
poohbear
     bearded,
          toothless dreams.

hot garlic rumbling
angelic kumara snorts

wrapped in kikau
flying out my screen window—
          up kinau
          up lunalilo
          up the Pali.

       MOUNTAIN

find the vunga
and
          b      l      o      w      her petticoats off.

               twitching,

               rolling,

let   me   sleep   .