Feeling Joyful to receive this gift of a poem from Malukan journalist and poet Rudi Fofid, whom I had the pleasure to interview and film for my Rhunhattan: A Tale of Two Islands project.

Between Rhun and Manhattan

(A tale for Beatrice Glow)

I paint nutmeg from Rhun Island
on your forehead
between your eyeballs
so if you send a smile wave
I see red mace smiling
makes me fly to the top of the sky
you're more magical than the statue of liberty
standing in Manhattan's epigastrium
read a quiet stream poetry
sing the "Redemption Song"
you're calling out a tsunami wave
erupted from the blue waters of the Banda Ocean
sweeping the scars of black history
between Rhun and Manhattan

Ambon, April 25, 2022