Lihue

Father suffers
emotional dysentary (a full cup leaves
no room for others' fluids) Father's children pare
and cut themselves
unleavened people denied a warm stationary
place necessary
for a full rise.

Alone in Paradise, our baker beams at his
perfect loaves, thinks of Dalmations and Annapolis.
Lily white communion blueberry pancake wedding
band collection and three family
albums carelessly left stateside.

And here she comes on flight 2953
seeking redemption for a rocking of the hips, swallowing
peas whole with milk.  You can't
get there in the car you're driving.  Mister
Oblivious and his missionary
family.  You-kuh-lay-lee, Ooo-kuh-lay-lee,
What the hell, it's a fiddle.

He won't give you
what you want.  The Deacon
will never fall to his knees
begging absolution.
Nothing personal,
blood doesn't drip from a stone.

Chalk it up to a weekend for two
in Hawaii.  It beats anything else he gave us.