why is this tree bleeding?

drinking palm blood

out of boiled glass

no label

used a 1000 times

thinking

will the sea eat tuvalu

fish fly

like megabats

like foxes

askew horseshoe angles

up and down

breaking azure

targets for marlins

before ghouls came

and erased animism

we knew travel

anyway

canoes between the dots

of our universe

an evening meal

capsicums

lime acid cooked shrimp

rice

with hands

food

family

pure sand

smiles

before sleep

i pray

when my son

runs headfirst into hell

for opportunities

he retains

his island heart.