“The Pacific Islands are facing severe climate changes”
scientists warn that these changes threaten multiple aspects of life
that ecosystems and survival, are intertwined
with responsibilities of local and international interests
where life in shiny cars is swept away by the encroaching seas
forgotten in computerized worlds beyond the grass huts and over the horizon
which are centered on the “great feeding life of the Pacific Ocean”
of which my tuna tataki melts in my mouth
at my favourite restaurant, Daikoku
sizzling and delicate as fine as the silk of the ocean dipping into the land
of my soul where I feel the changes in the cries of the countries in the South Pacific.
I look at mother’s hands that worked the lines of her life as she turns the pancakes
on the griddle.
How did I not like seafood on my colourful favourite plate?
Maybe it was because I loathed the smells
at the Suva Market. I still picture Mother and I stopping alongside the stalls
as she laughed with the vendors while I stood there quietly studying the tied-up crabs.
Lorraine Campbell
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