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"The Rainbow Body."

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That island for all
of us who went there,

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Japanese mostly and a few, one
German boy, an Italian boy,

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several others--

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I don't think any
other Americans went

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there, was a great experience.

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A really powerful experience
for everyone who went there it

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done.

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It has the wilderness of
Japan 5,000 years ago still,

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and it has being on that
volcanic chain of islands.

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It has the sense,
the knowledge that it

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was a stepping stone for very
ancient Stone Age voyagers, who

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probably saw the smoke
from the island from afar

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and used it as a navigation mark
just as they still do today.

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"The Rainbow Body."

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Cicada fill up the
bamboo thickets,

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a wall of twanging shadow,
dark joints and leaves,

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Northwest wind
from the China Sea.

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Salt clouds skim the volcano
mixed with ash and steam.

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Rumbles downwind from the
night gleam summit near Algol

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breathing the Milky Way.

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The great drone in the throat
of the hill, the winds--

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pardon me, the waves,
drum, the wind sigh.

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At dawn the mountain
canyons spread and rise

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to the falling call
of the Akahige,

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we have wake in the
East light fresh.

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At low tide swim out
through a path in the coral

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and into the land
of the sea people.

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Rainbows under the foam of the
breakers surge and streaming

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from the southern beach.

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The lips where you float, clear
wave with the subtle currents,

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sea tangled tendrils
outward roil of lava,

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or the cobalt speckled
curling mouth of a shako clam.

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I'm going to read
that image again.

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The lips where you float clear
wave with the subtle currents,

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sea tangled tendrils
outward roil

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of lava, cobalt speckled
curling mouth of a shako clam.

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That was swimming diving
behind a naked woman, who

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was diving for oysters, with her
legs apart, seeing her vulva,

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and the lips of it, and the hair
of it moving with the currents,

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identical with the sea anemone
and the seaweed around it.

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And with the same coil
and curl of the clams

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the large chunk of clams
when they're opening,

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like suddenly striking across
all of these structures in life

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and seeing that they
are the same structure.

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Climb delicately back up the
cliff without using our hands.

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Eat melon and steamed sweet
potato from this ground.

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We hold and fished grubbing
out bamboo runners,

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hammering straight blunt,
harpoon heads, and spears.

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Now sleep on the cliff,
float in the surf,

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nap in the bamboo thicket
eyes closed, dazzled ears.

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