Ha’åni Lucia Falo San Nicolas


Laguanå

In CHamoru, “laguanå” is the word for soursop fruit,
which can be used for medicinal or cooking purposes.

laguanå
hung low beneath bush
stiff black peaks penetrating
green fiber rugged, thick meat
split deep opalescent rich
fertile with seed sweet pool
of frothed sap drip lazily
soak mouth and slip to
fingers drenched
wet with
milk

Ha'åni Lucia Falo San Nicolas is a CHamoru and Samoan daughter, poet, educator, activist, and scholar born and raised by the island of Guåhan. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Indigenous Politics and an advanced graduate certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

 

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