A Certain Elegy

Friday, July 14, 2006

A Certain Elegy
For Vasiti Baleidroka-Carson
1963-2005.

Your face I saw in the rain there by the bus bay lingering
In the wash of students walking away and news of a past
The smile as always broad as a village alive shimmering
In wipe of tear across brows water grinned eye of repast
Jokes now fall flat of Vatukoula men with grimy armpits
For you are remembered as sweeping laugh among paper
As the lithe star among blithe words of an academy silent
In elegaic repose, no, not for Va, no such fancy fancy talk
Open wide those arms to feel footsteps of two boys in sync
As remembered breeze in Laucala trace your racing fingers


Mohit Prasad

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