Abstract
This collection of eight orginal poems of the Pacific Islands focus on the theme "Environmental artistic practices and indigeneity: In(ter)ventions, recycling, sovereignty". The first group of three poems, "Age of Plastic," "Rings of Fire," and "Halloween in the Anthropocene" address issues of climate change, waste, and capitalist exploitation. The second group of three poems, "Chanting the Waters," "One Fish, Two Fish," and "Praise Song for Oceania" address issues of water and the ocean from an indigenous Pacific perspective. The final group of two poems, "Family Trees," and "Tronkon Niyok (Coconut Tree)" address issues of militarization and its impact on Guam's trees.
Highlights
Chamoru poet (Guam), University of Hawaii at Mānoa, USA. This collection of eight original poems focus on the theme "Environmental artistic practices and indigeneity: In(ter)ventions, recycling, sovereignty"
“When she crowned,” my wife eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics said, “it felt like rings of fire.”
He responds with this origin tale: once, a young girl, beloved by our entire island, dies during a time of drought. The family buries her and weeps upon the grave, from which an unfamiliar tree sprouts. They watch it grow and bloom until its hard, strange fruit falls and 2014: Local fishermen use a small fish gill net called tekken, which capture 65% of coconut rhinoceros beetle (CRB) adults emerging from compost or green-waste piles
Summary
Ultrasound waves pulse between fluid, tissue, and bone until the embryo echoes Plastic leaches estrogenic and toxic chemicals, disrupts hormonal systems. After delivery, she places her placenta in a Ziploc and stores it in the freezer. Plastic labors to keep food fresh, delivers medicine and clean water. How empty it must feel: birthed, used, disposed by us. There exists one ton of plastic for every three tons of fish. How free it must feel when it arrives to the paradise of the Pacific gyre––far from us, its degrading makers.
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