Abstract

4 1 R D O D D E R A N D T R U E R H Y M E S S A N D R A M C P H E R S O N Dependent lei, you are welcome in patches. You puncture, leafless. You’re a slippery pumpkin color, before bloom. You live o√ your needle, pinned in pickleweed. Twisted, you’re a melee; cats fight over a spool of you. You lodge beside salt crusts and nodules, diatoms, sea lettuce, fine-branching scum. You are brass and copper wire by the red baywater. Soon you will have your diadem season. Exquisite parasite, flattering halophyte, cuscuta of botanist Gronon, kaunaoa of the island of Lanai, sponger, scrounger, freeloader on intervocalic alveolar voicing, the linguists tell me you are true, yet I can taste that lie; alma mater doesn’t mate, exact, with you. I protest that Ds and Ts don’t tie – that’s an – that’s their –identity disorder in addition to DTs. Can’t we just call us a marsh-rhyme? – a bit of a morass. I love us but I’m not your twin. 4 2 M C P H E R S O N Y I’m a waterbird-spotter, wader and plodder, hereditary poet of baylands, birth daughter of John Todd, John Todd’s daughter. ...

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