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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1974Vol. 45, No. 6

A flat thought

p. 68 · Read in the full issue

By Momoe Von Reiche

Blast the sun And loosen silver spit, From spumes of passionate waves

Rolling incessantly

With withering smiles — Flat colours immerse With A twisted lover’s knot Holding hard to Gnarled driftwoods That litter the Black Sand.

Naked I reach out to a Thought that bubbles And dies with The dawn air.

An entangled soul In coconut roots Despairing a lost Heart . ... so close to a tropical heaven, Wet with moss of a lovers spurn.

Samoa my Life.