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From the great ships they brought vermin and disease
defiled the freshwater pools and palm tree nests
devoured forest songs -clipped the color from trees
lay shadows beneath the sun children of the reef.

Just before the chain of rapes, she fled with a flower 
that her mother frantically placed in her hair 
she hid in caves with the graves of ancestors
prayed to the starry gods of the night sky
ate the eaters from the tide pools of despair
tried to grasp the miracles flashing by.

Re-emerging into the light
her skin turning white like the death ship spires
she watched as they finally lifted anchor
then dropped them, heavy in her heart...
She searched under every shell and cloud,
everything she loved was swept beneath the sandy hell... 
She rubbed the faded petals into her sunken cheeks
to protect her from the biters lying just beneath
but the lavender magic had faded long ago.
She smashed into the surf on a raft made of claro and bones
drifted into the teeth of breakers and found her way back home.

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