<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Chant Of Lamentation<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item field field--name-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 2.2rem;" class="">I lament the abandoned<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">terraces, their shattered<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">waters, silent ears<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">of stone and light</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 2.2rem;" class="">who comes trailing<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">winds through<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">taro lo‘i?</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 2.2rem;" class="">I lament the wounded<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">skies, unnourished<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">desolate, fallen drunk<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">over the iron sea</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 2.2rem;" class="">who chants<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">the hollow ipu<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">into the night?</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 2.2rem;" class="">I lament the black<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">and naked past, a million ghosts<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">laid out across the ocean floor</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 2.2rem;" class="">who journeys from<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">the rising to the setting<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">of the sun?</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 2.2rem;" class="">I lament the flowers<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">a‘ole pua, without<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">issue on the stained<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">and dying earth</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 2.2rem;" class="">who parts the trembling<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">legs enters where<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">the god enters, not<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">as a man but as a god?</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 2.2rem;" class="">I lament my own<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">long, furious lamentation<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">flung down<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">into the bitter stomachs</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 2.2rem;" class="">into the blood-filled streams<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">into the far<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">and scattered graves</p><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 2.2rem;" class="">who tells of those<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">disinterred, their<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">ground-up bones, their<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">poisoned eyes?</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 2.2rem;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 2.2rem;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Haunani-Kay Trask</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 2.2rem;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Oct. 3, 1949 - July 3. 2021)</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 2.2rem;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); white-space: pre;"> </span><font color="#333333" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/us/haunani-kay-trask-dead.html" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/us/haunani-kay-trask-dead.html</a></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>