Tattoo (varua Tupu Tahiti)
(Rai a Mai)
She was
living in the valley. But she would often come down to the village by the
shore. May be because she loved the ocean? Her whole face was tattooed and her
hands and her feet. For the body? I could not tell because she was always
wrapped in tapa cloth. I used to play
with the other children on the beach. And she would come and just sit there,
under the sun, for hours. She would stare silently at the sea. Not moving.
Not talking. Not smiling. Not looking at anyone. Her eyes on the sea, as if
captivated by these ever-rolling waves. Her body leaning with intensity toward
the ocean, as if her whole being was listening to something we could not hear.
?I like
people who can sit under the sun without moving and without talking, their eyes
filled with dreams from another world??
Mamie, I
haven''t forgotten your story. I have remembered the tattoo lady, whose hands
danced the words from among the clouds from Heaven.
Mamie, I
will try, for you,
to dance the words
from among the clouds from Heaven!
Some I will catch,
and hug them tight against my heart
until they want to come out,
alive,
on the pages of books.
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