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Amphibious Lips
we tuck hibiscus behind our ears and dance for the
visitors lesbians in grass skirts is how we are billed we
dance and sing and when we finish we place a garland of
flowers over the head of a chosen one
the sound of the sea 1 breaking on a coral reef is in our ears
we lie in a rattan-woven walled hut the ceiling made of
bamboo and a thatched roof no nails have been used in its
construction
on other islands women walk on fire dive for fish off the
coral shelf tumble three hundred and sixty degrees in that
magic underwater world she strokes the Maori wrasse
with its tattooed gills dances with grouper at the cod hole
falls without landing on the sand below some climb
coconut palms or pluck oysters from their beds among
them are those who are called takatapui 2
on islands lesbians thrive 3 our known origins our culture
and dreams are islands Lesbos 4 Capri 5 Malta 6 Crete 7
St Croix 8 Fiji 9 Isla Mujeres 10