Place names
Julia Wieting
E. Manoa, I know you. We stay
touching: I slept in your shade, fought
your wind. Rain wet my hair
as I cycled home to Pinau
A place to live in, inroad.
You have a name? Earnest?
Go ethe, to where the sun
rises to an also where
over Lake Michigan light
flakes blue off glass. A better
word for windows, chips.
Scales. Brindle the sky
like a long mo'o tail lying
kited along the st.
-ave, an expression
greeting or farewell ave
Malia
Hello route. Good
be with you
place
me where I am.
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Julia Wieting lives on O'ahu and is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, where she won the 2016 Academy of American Poets Prize. She publishes Paradise Review and has previously held editorial positions at Hawai'i Review and Vice-Versa. Her work has been published locally and internationally, most recently in Bone Bouquet, Hawai'i Review, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Summit and Bamboo Ridge. She was also a contributor to Spiral Orb Four.