Title: I arrive again

Author: Tusiata Avia

In: Sport 29: Spring 2002

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, October 2002

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Verse Literature

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I arrive again

I arrive again and they all kiss me
I kiss them back
Everyone has grown up or down

Sila has cut her hair
the great aunt I am named for is still sitting on the concrete
even after all these years

and hauls herself to four positions
I am worried about her wrinkled shins.
The mosquitoes remind me my skin

is sweet as the Sky-breakers'
and ripening like passion
fruits, someone will bring me salve.

All my cousins are here
and wearing uniforms:

United States Army
Qantas
WINZ.

Note: Sky-breakers is a translation of Palagi.