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Throw Net

by Jim Willis

Another local family pick-nick
at the old airport beach in Kona.
The uncle casts a round net
into the surf over a sandy shoal.

Someone taught him the mechanics of the throw–
the division of the folds, the drape, the posture.
He moves with the grace of ancestral gods
and spins the net like a web on the wind. Continue reading

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Figure and Ground

by Jim Willis

A green gecko edged in blue
rests like an “S” on the blue plywood
of the boarded up lei stand at Kealakekua. Continue reading

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