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Pauahi crater 10am

I give you this space: the rock at your feet
suddenly gaping. Six hundred paces
of empty air, or air so full of morning
that distance faints. A space full of the years
since its catastrophe, a space of shadow
where, if you fell, you could count seconds down.
Green - perhaps ferns, perhaps ohia trees,
so small, so far away, beyond shouting.

But this pit is full of invisible light
that cannot sing if nothing echoes it.
Nothing can give it shape or scale, until
a white-tailed tropic bird rises into
diagonal volume, trails streamers through
from blossom to star-pink blossom.


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